Valid Names Results

Newsteadia kanayana Kawai & Takagi, 1971 (Ortheziidae: Newsteadia)

Newsteadia kanayana Kawai & Takagi 1971: 112-114. Type data: JAPAN: Honshu, Shizuoka-ken, Kanaya, collected from the ground litter of tea gardens. Syntypes, female, Type depository: Sapporo: Entomological Institute, Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Japan; Tokyo: Imperial Agricultural Experiment Station, Tachikawa, Japan; accepted valid name Illustr.

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Countries: 3

Kozar2004: pp.38-41 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to the world species of Newsteadia]
Kozar2004: pp.38-41 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to the species of Newsteadia]
KozarKo1999a: pp.176 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to Newsteadia species found in the Oriental and Palaearctic regions]

Systematics: Specimens from Korea and Vietnam studied by Kozár (2004) are similar to specimens from Japan, but differ by having a higher (Korea) or smaller (Japan) number of spines in the wax plates on the venter.
Structure: Adult female stoutly elliptical, derm moderately sclerotized throughout the body (Kawai & Takagi, 1971).
Biology: Specimens were collected from leaf litter in a tea garden (Kawai & Takagi, 1971).
General Remarks: Original description and illustration by Kawai & Takagi (1971). Redescription by Kozár (2004).