Newsteadia Green 1902
Creators: name: Caballero, Alejandro
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Ortheziidae
Newsteadia

description: IDENTIFICATION KEY TO NEW WORLD SPECIES OF NEWSTEADIA GREEN, 1902 (adapted from the descriptions by Morrison [1925, 1952] and Kozár [2004])
1. Antenna with 5 or more segments ............................................................................................................... 2
— Antenna with 3 segments ............................................................................................................................ 8
2 Basal antennal segment with capitate or clavate setae ................................................................................... 3
— Basal antennal segment without capitate or clavate setae ............................................................................. 4
3 Antenna with 7 segments; ovisac band complete in medial area ...................................................................... ............................................................................................ N. floridensis Kozár & Konczné Benedicty, 2001
— Antenna with 6 segments; ovisac band interrupted in medial area .................................................................. ............................................................................................. N. tropicalis Kozár & Konczné Benedicty, 2001
4 Ovisac band interrupted in mid-region ....................................................................................................... 5
— Ovisac band complete in mid-region ........................................................................................................... 6
5 Wax plates in medial area of dorsum reduced to rows, conspicuously narrower than wax plates in marginal regions ............................................................................... N. brasiliensis Kozár & Konczné Benedicty, 2001
— Wax plates in medial area of dorsum as wide as those in marginal regions ...................................................... .......................................................................................................... N. americana Morrison, 1925 (in part)
6 Labium with clavate setae ......................................................... N. gergoei Konczné Benedicty & Kozár, 2002
— Labium without clavate setae ....................................................................................................................... 7
7 Wax plates on dorsum subdivided in medial area ................................................. N. minima Morrison, 1952
— Wax plates on dorsum in continuous bands across medial area .......... N. americana Morrison, 1925 (in part)
8 Femur and tibia with setae capitate ........................................ N. borhidii Kozár & Konczné Benedicty, 2001
— Femur and tibia with setae acute or blunt, not capitate ............................................................................... 9
9 Venter posterior to vulva with conspicuous clusters of quadrilocular pores ................................................ 10
— Venter posterior to vulva without clusters of quadrilocular pores ............................................................... 11
10 Apical antennal segment with slender flagellate setae ........... N. morrisoni Kozár & Konczné Benedicty, 2001
— Apical antennal segment with thick spine-like setae ......... N. costaricaensis Kozár & Konczné Benedicty, 2001
11 Third antennal segment without subapical seta ..................................................... N. tristani (Silvestri, 1924)
— Third antennal segment with subapical seta ............................................................................................... 12
12 Each thoracic spiracle associated with no more than 2 pores; labium up to 160 µm long; wax plates containing tubular ducts .................................................................................................. N. trisegmentalis Howell, 1975
— Each thoracic spiracle associated with at least 10 pores; labium at least 220 µm long; wax plates without tubular ducts .................................................................................................................................... N. andreae n. sp.
description: Published as part of Caballero, Alejandro, 2021, Four new scale insect species (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha) associated with coffee roots in Colombia, South America, with identification keys for genera Newsteadia Green, 1902, Distichlicoccus Ferris, 1950, and Paraputo Laing, 1929, pp. 341-363 in Zoosystema 43 (18) on page 347, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2021v43a18, http://zenodo.org/record/5037821