Valid Names Results
Neosteingelia texana Morrison, 1927 (Kuwaniidae: Neosteingelia)Nomenclatural History
- Neosteingelia texana Morrison 1927: 101. Type data: USA: Texas, San Antonio, on bark of Hackberry, Celtis sp., October, 1917; collected by H.G.H. Weinert.. Holotype, female, Type depository: Washington: United States National Entomological Collection, U.S. National Museum of Natural History, District of Columbia, USA; accepted valid name
Common Names
- pecan giant scale Koszta1996
Ecological Associates
Hosts:
Families: 5 | Genera: 5
- Altingiaceae
- Liquidambar styraciflua | KosztaWa1994
- Cannabaceae
- Celtis | Morris1927
- Celtis occidentalis | KosztaWa1994
- Juglandaceae
- Carya illinoinensis | KosztaWa1994
- Carya ovata | KosztaWa1994
- Oleaceae
- Fraxinus | KosztaWa1994
- Sapindaceae
- Acer | KosztaWa1994
- Acer saccharum | Koszta1996
Geographic Distribution
Countries: 2
- Mexico
- Oaxaca | Gavril2022
- United States
- Alabama | KosztaWa1994
- Florida | KosztaWa1994
- Georgia | KosztaWa1994
- Oklahoma | KosztaWa1994
- Pennsylvania | KosztaWa1994
- South Carolina | KosztaWa1994
- Tennessee | KosztaWa1994
- Texas | Morris1927
- Virginia | KosztaWa1994
Keys
Remarks
- Structure: Colour photograph of adult female and adult male by Foldi (2003a).
- Biology: In Virginia, USA, most of life of this species is spent under bark flakes of the host plant; adult females appear on bark surface in September - October, mate and wander back under the bark were they oviposit the eggs (Kosztarab & Watson, 1994).
- Economic Importance: Considered a potential pest of pecan plantations in the southern United States (Kosztarab & Watson, 1994).
- General Remarks: Description and illustration of adult female, intermediate female, adult male and nymph by Morrison (1927, 1928). Description and illustration of adult female by Kosztarab & Watson (1994) and by Kosztarab (1996). Description and illustration of adult male by Hodgson & Foldi (2006).
Illustrations
Citations
- BenDov2005a: catalog, distribution, economic importance, host, taxonomy, 82-83
- BugajNJuKa2021: distribution, host, list, 304
- Foldi2001a: taxonomy, 212
- Foldi2003a: taxonomy, 3
- Gavril2018: illustration, 6
- Gavril2022: taxonomy, 249
- GullanCo2007: taxonomy, 413-425
- HodgsoFo2006: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 119-125
- KondoWa2022a: distribution, host, list, 21
- Koszta1996: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 50-52
- KosztaWa1994: distribution, economic importance, host, life history, taxonomy, 24-25
- Koteja1996a: description, illustration, taxonomy, 69-71
- Morris1927: description, distribution, host, taxonomy, 101
- Morris1928: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 67-71,227
- VeaGr2015: phylogeny, 62
- VeaGr2016: evolution, 4
- Willia2017a: catalog, list of species, 240
