Species Newsteadia tasmaniensis Kozár & Konczné Benedicty, 2000

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• Newsteadia tasmaniensis 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 [198].

  Type data:

   Holotype BPPI ♀, AUSTRALIA: Gleneagle, Canning Catchment.

  Type host:

   Casuarina sp. [CASUARINACEAE]

Distribution

States

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 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 (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 1.8 mm long, 1.3 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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