Newsteadia
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| Superfamily: | Coccoidea
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| Genus: | Newsteadia Green, 1902
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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.
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:
- Morrison - United States
- Newsteadia floccosa De Geer – Europe
- Morrison – Solomon Islands
- Mamet – Mauritius
- Morrison – United States
- Mamet – Mauritius
- – Afrotropical
- Newsteadia myersi Green – New Zealand
- Morrison – Samoa
- James Howell – United States
- Silvestri – Mexico and Costa Rica
- Strickland – Ghana
- Hirotaka – Japan
- Morrison – Fiji
References[]
- ^ Hoy, J. M. Re-description of Newsteadia myersi
- ^ 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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