Valid Names Results

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

Newsteadia morrisoni Kozár & Konczné Benedicty 2001: 132-134. Type data: COSTA RICA, Tarbaca, 01/01/1993, 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.58 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to the species of Newsteadia]
KozarKo2001: pp.140 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to Newsteadia species in the Nearctic and Neotropic Regions]

Systematics: N. morrisoni differs from all other Newsteadia species in the region by the large number of long hairlike setae on all segments of the antennae (Kozár & Konczné Benedicty, 2001).
Structure: Slide mounted adult female 1.3 mm long, 0.9 mm wide. Antennae 3-segmented. Ovisac band complete; wax plates in groups or bands on thorax and head. Dorsal wax plates cover only part of surface in wide bands. 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). Antennae 3 segmented with long hair-like setae on all segments; with 10 setae on segment I and II and 19 setae on apical segment; sensory fleshy setae present on apical segment. (Kaydan, et al., 2016)
General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration by Kozár & Konczné Benedicty (2001).