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Apple scale

Hemiberlesia rapax (Comstock, 1881)

Status not recordedinsects

The apple scale (Hemiberlesia rapax) is a species in the family Diaspididae, order Hemiptera. Source checklists list it for 76 countries, including Algeria, Angola and Armenia.

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Quick facts about the apple scale

Weight
Not recorded
Length
Not recorded
Lifespan
Not recorded
Main food
Not recorded
Habitat
Not recorded
Young per litter or clutch
Not recorded
Conservation status
Not recorded
Countries on record
76 countriessrc for Countries on record

Where does the apple scale live?

Countries where Catalogue of Life checklists list the species. Many checklists carry no country data, so the list is often incomplete. It is not a range map.

The apple scale is listed for 76 countries.

TanzaniaKazakhstanPapua New GuineaIndonesiaChileKenyaRussiaSouth AfricaMexicoUruguayBoliviaPeruColombiaCosta RicaHondurasGuatemalaGuyanaSurinameFranceEcuadorPuerto RicoJamaicaCubaZimbabweZambiaMalawiAngolaIsraelLebanonMadagascarTunisiaAlgeriaIraqVietnamNorth KoreaMongoliaIndiaNepalPakistanIranSyriaArmeniaPolandHungaryRomaniaGermanyBulgariaGreeceTurkeyCroatiaLuxembourgNetherlandsPortugalSpainNew CaledoniaNew ZealandSri LankaChinaTaiwanItalyGeorgiaPhilippinesMalaysiaCzechiaEritreaJapanCyprusMoroccoEgypt
  • Listed
  • Not listed
small islands are not drawn at this scale

The same countries as a list

  1. Algeria
  2. Angola
  3. Armenia
  4. Barbados
  5. Bermuda
  6. Bolivia
  7. Bulgaria
  8. Chile
  9. China
  10. Christmas Island
  11. Colombia
  12. Costa Rica
  13. Croatia
  14. Cuba
  15. Cyprus
  16. Czechia
  17. Ecuador
  18. Egypt
  19. Eritrea
  20. France
  21. Georgia
  22. Germany
  23. Greece
  24. Guatemala
  25. Guyana
  26. Honduras
  27. Hungary
  28. India
  29. Indonesia
  30. Iran
  31. Iraq
  32. Israel
  33. Italy
  34. Jamaica
  35. Japan
  36. Kazakhstan
  37. Kenya
  38. Kiribati
  39. Lebanon
  40. Luxembourg
Show 36 more countries
  1. Madagascar
  2. Malawi
  3. Malaysia
  4. Malta
  5. Mauritius
  6. Mexico
  7. Mongolia
  8. Morocco
  9. Nepal
  10. Netherlands
  11. New Caledonia
  12. New Zealand
  13. North Korea
  14. Pakistan
  15. Papua New Guinea
  16. Peru
  17. Philippines
  18. Poland
  19. Portugal
  20. Puerto Rico
  21. Romania
  22. Russia
  23. Seychelles
  24. South Africa
  25. Spain
  26. Sri Lanka
  27. Suriname
  28. Syria
  29. Taiwan
  30. Tanzania
  31. Tunisia
  32. Türkiye
  33. Uruguay
  34. Vietnam
  35. Zambia
  36. Zimbabwe

Why a country list is not a range map

Where has it been introduced?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the apple scale as introduced in 3 countries.

  1. Australia
  2. France
  3. United States

Introduced means brought by people and now present; invasive means the country's checklist records an impact. A species can be native to one part of a country and introduced in another. Source: Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species (CC BY 4.0).

Is the apple scale endangered?

No conservation assessment is recorded for this species in our sources. That is not the same as being safe: it has not been matched to an assessment.

How is the apple scale classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. classInsecta
  4. orderHemiptera
  5. familyDiaspididae
  6. genusHemiberlesia
  7. SpeciesHemiberlesia rapax (Comstock, 1881)

Synonyms Aspidiotus acuminatus, Aspidiotus argentina, Aspidiotus argintina, Aspidiotus euonymi, Aspidiotus evonymi, Aspidiotus flavescens, Aspidiotus lacumae, Aspidiotus lucumae, Aspidiotus napax, Aspidiotus rapax, Aspidiotus rapax evonymi, Aspidiotus santali, Aspidiotus tricolor, Diaspis circulata, Diaspis santali, Diaspis sentali, Hemiberlesea camelliae, Hemiberlesea rapax, Hemiberlesia acuminatus, Hemiberlesia argentina, Hemiberlesia repax, Hemiberlesia tricolor, Hemiberlsia rapax, Hendaspidiotus tricolor

Other names and names in other languages (13)
  • Greedy scaleEnglish
  • Greedy scale insectEnglish
  • Rapacious scaleEnglish
  • حشرة التفاح القشريةArabic
  • Escama del olivoSpanish
  • cochonilha-conchaPortuguese
  • Щитовка выпуклаяRussian
  • štítnička skleníkováSlovak
  • tsubaki-maru-kaigaramushiroot
  • 棕櫛圓盾介殼蟲Chinese
  • escama rapaxSpanish
  • escama vorazSpanish
  • mnogoyadnaya shitovkaRussian

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of the apple scale

Other species in the same genus Hemiberlesia.

Quince scale

Hemiberlesia lataniae

DiaspididaeNo free photo yet

Poplar scale

Hemiberlesia popularum

DiaspididaeNo free photo yet

CompareApple scale vs Quince scaleApple scale vs False diffinis scaleApple scale vs Tropical palm scaleApple scale vs Poplar scale

Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

Where does the apple scale live?

Catalogue of Life checklists list the apple scale for 76 countries, including Algeria, Angola, Armenia, Barbados and Bermuda. Checklist coverage is uneven, so the true range may be wider.

Is the apple scale an invasive species?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the apple scale as introduced in 3 countries: Australia, France and United States, but does not flag it as invasive in any of them.

What kind of animal is the apple scale?

The apple scale (Hemiberlesia rapax) belongs to the family Diaspididae in the order Hemiptera.

Sources and how to cite this page

Data as of 2026-11-13. How this page is put together.

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APA

CreatureData. (2026). Apple scale (Hemiberlesia rapax). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/apple-scale

MLA

“Apple scale (Hemiberlesia rapax).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/apple-scale.

BibTeX
@misc{apple_scale_2026,
  title = {Apple scale (Hemiberlesia rapax)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/apple-scale},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-13}
}