Valid Names Results

Newsteadia biroi Kozár & Konczné Benedicty, 2000 (Ortheziidae: Newsteadia)

Newsteadia biroi Kozár & Konczné Benedicty 2000: 212-214. Type data: PAPUA NEW GUINEA: Mt. kaindi, 14/08/1977, by J. Balogh. Holotype, female, Type depository: Budapest: Hungarian Natural History Museum, Zoological Department, Hungary; accepted valid name Notes: 3 paratypes in HNHM. Illustr.

Countries: 1

Kozar2004: pp.38-41 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to the world species of Newsteadia]
KozarKo2000: pp.225 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to species of Newsteadia in the Australian and Pacific Regions]

Systematics: Newsteadia biroi is similar to N. martini, but the latter has rows of hair-like setae inside of the ovisac band and long tubular ducts in dorsal wax plate bands (Kozár & Konczné Benedicty, 2000).
Structure: Mounted adult female 1.1 mm long and 0.76 mm wide. Antennae 4-segmented (Kozár & Konczné Benedicty, 2000).
Biology: This species was collected at an altitude of 2300 meters (Kozár & Konczné Benedicty, 2000). It occurs in moss (Kozár, 2004).
General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration by Kozár & Konczné Benedicty (2000) and Kozár (2004).