Newsteadia
Encyclopedia
Newsteadia is a genus of ensign scale insect
s in the superfamily Coccoidea. Most species are inconspicuous, measureing under two millimeters long and found in leaf litter.
Scale insect
The scale insects are small insects of the order Hemiptera, generally classified as the superfamily Coccoidea. There are about 8,000 species of scale insects.-Ecology:...
s in the superfamily Coccoidea. Most species are inconspicuous, measureing under two millimeters long and found in leaf litter.
Species
In 1962, J. M. Hoy stated there were 11 species in the genus. This has since risen to 48 species. These include:- Newsteadia americana Morrison - United States
- Newsteadia caledoniensis
- Newsteadia floccosa De GeerCharles De GeerBaron Charles de Geer was a Swedish industrialist and entomologist.- Life :...
– 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 myersiNewsteadia myersiNewsteadia myersi is the only member of the scale insect family Ortheziidae to have been found in New Zealand. It was found by sifting through the leaf litter and debris under nikau palm trees .-Description:...
Green – New Zealand - Newsteadia samoana Morrison – Samoa
- Newsteadia trisegmentalis James Howell – United States
- Newsteadia tristani SilvestriFilippo SilvestriFilippo Silvestri was an Italian entomologist. He specialised in world Protura, Thysanura, Diplura and Isoptera, but also worked on Hymenoptera, Myriapoda and Italian Diptera...
– Mexico and Costa Rica - Newsteadia wacri StricklandHugh Edwin StricklandHugh Edwin Strickland , was an English geologist, ornithologist,naturalist, and systematist.Strickland was born at Reighton, in the East Riding of Yorkshire. He was the second son of Henry Eustatius Strickland of Apperley, Gloucestershire, by his wife Mary, daughter of Edmund Cartwright, D.D. [q...
– Ghana - Newsteadia yanbaruensis Hirotaka – Japan
- Newsteadia zimmermani Morrison – Fiji