Newsteadia

Newsteadia is a genus of ensign scale insects in the superfamily Coccoidea. Most species are inconspicuous, measuring under two millimeters long and found in leaf litter.

Newsteadia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Hemiptera
Superfamily:
Coccoidea
Family:
Ortheziidae
Genus:
Newsteadia

Green, 1902
Species

See text

Species

In 1962, J. M. Hoy stated there were 11 species in the genus.[1] This has since risen to 48 species.[2] These include:

  • Newsteadia americana Morrison - United States
  • Newsteadia caledoniensis
  • Newsteadia floccosa De Geer – Europe
  • Newsteadia guadalcanalia Morrison – Solomon Islands
  • Newsteadia gullanae
  • Newsteadia mauritania Mamet – Mauritius
  • Newsteadia minima Morrison – United States
  • Newsteadia montana Mamet – Mauritius
  • Newsteadia multispina – Afrotropical
  • Newsteadia myersi Green – New Zealand
  • Newsteadia samoana Morrison – Samoa
  • Newsteadia trisegmentalis James Howell – United States
  • Newsteadia tristani Silvestri – Mexico and Costa Rica
  • Newsteadia wacri Strickland – Ghana
  • Newsteadia yanbaruensis Hirotaka – Japan
  • Newsteadia zimmermani Morrison – Fiji

References
  1. Hoy, J. M. Re-description of Newsteadia myersi
  2. 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: 197–229.


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