Coleorrhyncha or
Peloridiomorpha, also known as
moss bugs or
beetle bugs, are a suborder of
Hemiptera and represent an ancient lineage of moss-feeding insects that evolved in the southern paleo-continent
Gondwana. They show some similarities to the
Heteroptera but have been considered as distinct. It has a single
extant family, the
Peloridiidae. Three other families have been established on the basis of fossils and these include the more ancient (Later Permian to Jurassic) Progonocimicidae and the later Karabasiidae and Hoploridiidae. The Coleorrhyncha were earlier included within the "Homoptera" but based on studies of their morphological similarities as well as molecular
phylogeny are now considered as a sister group of the Heteroptera. They have wings in some species which are reduced in others but all species are flightless and live in damp moss habitats and are associated with the distribution of
Nothofagus trees in Australia, New Zealand, New Caledonia, and South America.