Valid Names Results

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

Newsteadia caledoniensis Kozár & Konczné Benedicty 2000: 209-210. Type data: PAPUA NEW CALEDONIA: Ile des Pins, 18/05/1986, by J. Balogh. Holotype, female, Type depository: Budapest: Hungarian Natural History Museum, Zoological Department, Hungary; accepted valid name Notes: 5 paratypes in HNHM. Illustr.

Countries: 2

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 caledoniensis is similar to N. baloghi, but differs in the absence of quadrilocular pores between wax plates on the dorsum of the thorax and the long tubular ducts in wax plate bands. The ovisac band is not interrupted in the middle (Kozár & Konczné Benedicty, 2000).
Structure: Mounted adult female 0.9 mm long, 0.7 mm wide. Antennae 4-segmented (Kozár & Konczné Benedicty, 2000). Antennae with 4-8 spine-like setae on all segments, apical seta thick and blunt, subapical seta absent, sensory fleshy seta on apical segment. (Kaydan, et al., 2016)
Biology: Newsteadia caledoniensis has been found in litter (Kozár, 2004).
General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration by Kozár & Konczné Benedicty (2000) adn Kozár (2004).