Valid Names Results

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

Nomenclatural History

• Newsteadia tasmaniensis Kozár & Konczné Benedicty 2000: 198-200. Type data: AUSTRALIA: Gleneagle, Canning Catchment, under Casuarina sp.. Holotype, female, Type depository: Budapest: Hungarian Natural History Museum, Zoological Department, Hungary; accepted valid name Notes: 4 paratypes in HNHM. Illustr.

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 3 | Genera: 3

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• LaPollBuBr2008: pp.57 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to Australian Ortheziidae]
• Kozar2004: pp.38-41 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to the world species of Newsteadia]
• KozarKo2000: pp.226 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to species of Newsteadia in the Australian and Pacific Regions]

Remarks

• Systematics: Newsteadia tasmaniensis is similar to N. samoana, but differs in the presence of long tubular ducts in wax plate bands and the presence of short, stout anal ring setae in N. tasmaniensis (Kozár & Konczné Benedicty, 2000).
• Structure: Mounted adult female 1.8 mm long, 1.3 mm wide. Antennae 6-segmented (Kozár & Konczné Benedicty, 2000).
• General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration by Kozár & Konczné Benedicty (2000). Redescription by Kozár (2004).

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