Valid Names Results

Newsteadia brasiliensis Kozár & Konczné Benedicty, 2001 (Ortheziidae: Newsteadia)

Newsteadia brasiliensis Kozár & Konczné Benedicty 2001: 127-128. Type data: BRAZIL: 1550 m a.s.l., 1995, by J. Balogh. Holotype, female, Type depository: Budapest: Hungarian Natural History Museum, Zoological Department, Hungary; accepted valid name Illustr.

Countries: 1

Caball2021: pp.347 ( Adult (F) ) [New World Newsteadia]
Kozar2004: pp.38-41 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to the world species of Newsteadia]
KozarKo2001: pp.141 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to Newsteadia species in the Nearctic and Neotropic Regions]

Systematics: Newsteadia brasiliensis is different from other Newsteadia species, by having 6-segmented antennae with long, strong, setose hairlike setae on the antennae (Kozár & Konczné Benedicty, 2001).
Structure: Mounted adult female 1.0 mm long, 0.8 mm wide. Antennae 6-segmented. Ventral ovisac band interrupted in middle, short, ovisac wax plate groups on last segments of abdomen absent; wax plates nearly absent on thorax and head. Hairlike setae scattered in medial areas of thorax. Dorsal wax plates scattered in single rows. Spines at margin of wax plate elongate. Hairlike setae present in marginal clusters near posterior edges of marginal wax plates and near anterolateral and anteromedial edge of each dorsomedial wax plate (Kozár & Konczné Benedicty, 2001).
General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration by Kozár & Konczné Benedicty (2001) and Kozár (2004).