Species Newsteadia australiensis Kozár & Konczné Benedicty, 2000

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• Newsteadia australiensis Kozár, F. & Konczné Benedicty, Z. 2000. Revision of Newsteadia of the Australian and Pacific regions, with description of eleven new species (Homoptera : Coccoidea, Ortheziidae). Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungariae 46(3): 197-229 [200].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♀, AUSTRALIA: Australian Capital Territory, Ginini Flats, Brindabellas.

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Tasmania

Ecological Descriptors

Sap-feeder.

ID Keys

(Kozár, F. & Konczné Benedicty, Z., 2000) [226] (key to species of Newsteadia in the Australian and Pacific Regions)

GENERAL

Detailed description and illustration by Kozár, F. & Konczné Benedicty, Z. 2000. Revision of Newsteadia of the Australian and Pacific regions, with description of eleven new species (Homoptera : Coccoidea, Ortheziidae). Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 46(3): 197–229.

SYSTEMATICS

Newsteadia australiensis is similar to N. endroedyi, but differs in having a sensory seta close to tibial sensorium and large groups of quadrilocular and discoidal pores on the margin and on the dorsum (see Kozár, F. & Konczné Benedicty, Z. 2000. Revision of Newsteadia of the Australian and Pacific regions, with description of eleven new species (Homoptera : Coccoidea, Ortheziidae). Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 46(3): 197–229).

STRUCTURE

Mounted adult female 1.2 mm long, 0.8 mm wide. Antennae 6-segmented (see Kozár, F. & Konczné Benedicty, Z. 2000. Revision of Newsteadia of the Australian and Pacific regions, with description of eleven new species (Homoptera : Coccoidea, Ortheziidae). Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 46(3): 197–229).

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