Valid Names Results

Newsteadia vasarhelyii Kozár & Konczné Benedicty, 1999 (Ortheziidae: Newsteadia)

Nomenclatural History

• Newsteadia vasarhelyii Kozár & Konczné Benedicty 1999a: 171-172. Type data: SOUTH KOREA: Kumgang-san, from moss, 07/09/1989, by G. Szollát. Holotype, female, Type depository: Budapest: Hungarian Natural History Museum, Zoological Department, Hungary; accepted valid name Notes: Paratypes in PPIH. Illustr.

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Geographic Distribution

Keys

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

Remarks

• Systematics: Newsteadia vasarhelyii is similar to N. koeroesicsomai, the key difference being the presence of the 2 sensory setae on the apical segment of the antennae (Kozár & Konczné Benedicty, 1999a).
• Structure: Adult female 1.2 mm long, 0.8 mm wide. Antennae 7-segmented. Dorsum with wax plates only partially covering the surface. Spines at the margin of wax plate elongate. Hair-like setae present in marginal clusters near posterior edges of marginal wax plates, and near anterolateal and anteromedial edge of each dorsomedial wax plate (Kozár & Konczné Benedicty, 1999a).
• Biology: Specimens have been collected in moss and litter of Quercus foresst.
• General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration by Kozár & Konczné Benedicty (1999a) and by Kozár (2004).

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