Species Newsteadia gullanae Kozár & Konczné Benedicty, 2000

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Regional Maps

• Newsteadia gullanae 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 [202].

  Type data:

   Holotype BPPI ♀, AUSTRALIA: Tasmania, Barrow Creek Mt.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria

Ecological Descriptors

Sap-feeder.

ID Keys

(Kozár, F. & Konczné Benedicty, Z., 2000) [225] (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 gullanae is similar to N. kanayana, but differs from it by having long, hair-like seta on the apical segment of the antennae, and the sensory seta on the apical segment of the antenna situated near the apical seta (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

Adult mounted female 2.0 mm long, 1.1 mm wide. Antennae 7-segmented. Wax plates cover most of 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).

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