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Family Kuwaniidae

Unknown Arthropod Redux - Neosteingelia texana - female

Male Cochineal scale? - Neosteingelia texana

Giant Pecan Scale Insect - Neosteingelia texana

Neosteingelia texana, female - Neosteingelia texana - female

Springtail? Isopod? - Neosteingelia texana

Adult female roaming on hickory trunk - Neosteingelia texana - female

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Hemiptera (True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies)

Suborder Sternorrhyncha (Plant-parasitic Hemipterans)

Superfamily Coccoidea (Scales and Mealybugs)

Family Kuwaniidae

Explanation of Names

Kuwaniidae MacGillivray 1921

Numbers

2 spp. in 2 genera in our area, 9 spp. in 3 genera total(1)

Internet References

Taxon page(2)

Works Cited

1.	ScaleNet

2.	Miller D., Rung A., Parikh G., Venable G., Redford A.J., Evans G.A., Gill R.J. (2014) Scale Insects, 2nd ed.

Contributed by v belov on 23 October, 2011 - 11:35am
Additional contributions by Theridula
Last updated 19 November, 2023 - 7:57pm

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