Mating position in Peloridiidae (Hemiptera: Coleorrhyncha)
The mating position is described and illustrated for the first time in Peloridiidae. Peloridium hammoniorum Breddin, 1897 from Chile and Hemiodoecus leai China, 1924 from Tasmania mate in the side-by-side (V-shaped) position, where the tips of male and female abdomens are actually in a female-above position (the female’s posterior held between the male’s genitalia below and his tegmina above). Such mating position, common in Psyllomorpha, Auchenorrhyncha and Heteroptera, is likely primitive for Hemiptera.