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Breadfruit scale

Icerya seychellarum (Westwood, 1855)

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The breadfruit scale (Icerya seychellarum) is a species in the family Monophlebidae, order Hemiptera. Source checklists list it for 57 countries, including American Samoa, Bangladesh and Botswana.

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Quick facts about the breadfruit 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
57 countriessrc for Countries on record

Where does the breadfruit 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 breadfruit scale is listed for 57 countries.

FijiTanzaniaPapua New GuineaKenyaSouth AfricaColombiaGuyanaFranceBotswanaSenegalMalawiMozambiqueIsraelMadagascarOmanVanuatuThailandMyanmarSouth KoreaIndiaBangladeshNepalPakistanGermanyPortugalSpainNew CaledoniaSolomon Is.New ZealandSri LankaTaiwanMalaysiaBruneiJapanYemenMoroccoEgyptEthiopiaUganda
  • Listed
  • Not listed
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The same countries as a list

  1. American Samoa
  2. Bangladesh
  3. Botswana
  4. Brunei
  5. Colombia
  6. Comoros
  7. Cook Islands
  8. Dominica
  9. Egypt
  10. Ethiopia
  11. Fiji
  12. France
  13. French Guiana
  14. French Polynesia
  15. Germany
  16. Guadeloupe
  17. Guyana
  18. Hong Kong SAR China
  19. India
  20. Israel
  21. Japan
  22. Kenya
  23. Kiribati
  24. Madagascar
  25. Malawi
  26. Malaysia
  27. Martinique
  28. Mauritius
  29. Morocco
  30. Mozambique
  31. Myanmar (Burma)
  32. Nauru
  33. Nepal
  34. New Caledonia
  35. New Zealand
  36. Niue
  37. Oman
  38. Pakistan
  39. Palau
  40. Papua New Guinea
Show 17 more countries
  1. Portugal
  2. Samoa
  3. Senegal
  4. Seychelles
  5. Solomon Islands
  6. South Africa
  7. South Korea
  8. Spain
  9. Sri Lanka
  10. Taiwan
  11. Tanzania
  12. Thailand
  13. Tonga
  14. Tuvalu
  15. Uganda
  16. Vanuatu
  17. Yemen

Is the breadfruit 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 breadfruit scale classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. classInsecta
  4. orderHemiptera
  5. familyMonophlebidae
  6. genusIcerya
  7. SpeciesIcerya seychellarum (Westwood, 1855)

Synonyms Coccus sacchari, Dorthesia seychellarum, Iceria seychellarum, Icerya candida, Icerya okadae, Icerya sacchari, Icerya seychellarum cristata, Icerya seyshellarum, Orthezia seychellarum

Other names and names in other languages (16)
  • Common white mealybugEnglish
  • Okada cottony-cushion scaleEnglish
  • Seychellarum mealybugEnglish
  • Seychelles fluted scaleEnglish
  • Seychelles scaleEnglish
  • Silvery cushion scaleEnglish
  • Yellow cottony cushion scaleEnglish
  • بق السشيالرم الدقيقىArabic
  • cochinilla de las SeychellesSpanish
  • Cochenille des SeychellesFrench
  • オカダワタフキカイガラムシJapanese
  • ki-iro-watafuki-kaigaramushiroot
  • 黃吹綿介殼蟲Chinese
  • Cochenille farineuse des SeychellesFrench
  • キイロワタフキカイガラムシJapanese
  • 銀毛吹綿蚧Chinese

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of the breadfruit scale

Other species in the same genus Icerya.

Mealy scale

Icerya purchasi

MonophlebidaeNo free photo yet

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Common questions

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Where does the breadfruit scale live?

Catalogue of Life checklists list the breadfruit scale for 57 countries, including American Samoa, Bangladesh, Botswana, Brunei and Colombia. Checklist coverage is uneven, so the true range may be wider.

What kind of animal is the breadfruit scale?

The breadfruit scale (Icerya seychellarum) belongs to the family Monophlebidae in the order Hemiptera.

Sources and how to cite this page

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

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APA

CreatureData. (2026). Breadfruit scale (Icerya seychellarum). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/breadfruit-scale

MLA

“Breadfruit scale (Icerya seychellarum).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/breadfruit-scale.

BibTeX
@misc{breadfruit_scale_2026,
  title = {Breadfruit scale (Icerya seychellarum)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/breadfruit-scale},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-11}
}