Brown coffee scale
Saissetia coffeae (Walker, 1852)
Status not recordedinsects
The brown coffee scale (Saissetia coffeae) is a species in the family Coccidae, order Hemiptera. Source checklists list it for 138 countries, including Afghanistan, Algeria and Angola.
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Quick facts about the brown coffee 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
- 138 countriessrc for Countries on record
Where does the brown coffee 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 brown coffee scale is listed for 138 countries.
- Listed
- Not listed
The same countries as a list
- Afghanistan
- Algeria
- Angola
- Anguilla
- Argentina
- Armenia
- Aruba
- Australia
- Austria
- Bangladesh
- Barbados
- Belgium
- Bermuda
- Bhutan
- Brazil
- Brunei
- Bulgaria
- Burundi
- Cambodia
- Cameroon
- Cape Verde
- Cayman Islands
- Chile
- Christmas Island
- Colombia
- Congo - Kinshasa
- Costa Rica
- Côte d’Ivoire
- Croatia
- Cuba
- Curaçao
- Denmark
- Dominica
- Dominican Republic
- Ecuador
- Egypt
- El Salvador
- Eritrea
- Estonia
- Ethiopia
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- Fiji
- France
- French Guiana
- French Polynesia
- Georgia
- Germany
- Ghana
- Greece
- Grenada
- Guadeloupe
- Guam
- Guatemala
- Guyana
- Haiti
- Honduras
- Hong Kong SAR China
- Hungary
- India
- Iran
- Ireland
- Israel
- Italy
- Jamaica
- Japan
- Kenya
- Kiribati
- Latvia
- Lebanon
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Malaysia
- Maldives
- Malta
- Marshall Islands
- Martinique
- Mauritius
- Mexico
- Mongolia
- Montserrat
- Morocco
- Mozambique
- Myanmar (Burma)
- Nauru
- Nepal
- Netherlands
- New Caledonia
- New Zealand
- Norfolk Island
- North Korea
- Northern Mariana Islands
- Pakistan
- Palau
- Panama
- Papua New Guinea
- Peru
- Philippines
- Poland
- Portugal
- Puerto Rico
- Romania
- Rwanda
- Samoa
- Saudi Arabia
- Seychelles
- Sierra Leone
- Singapore
- Slovenia
- Solomon Islands
- South Africa
- South Korea
- Spain
- Sri Lanka
- St. Helena
- St. Kitts & Nevis
- St. Lucia
- St. Pierre & Miquelon
- St. Vincent & Grenadines
- Sudan
- Suriname
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Taiwan
- Tanzania
- Thailand
- Togo
- Tonga
- Tunisia
- Türkiye
- Turkmenistan
- U.S. Virgin Islands
- Uganda
- Ukraine
- Uruguay
- Vanuatu
- Venezuela
- Vietnam
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
Is the brown coffee 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 brown coffee scale classified?
- kingdomAnimalia
- phylumArthropoda
- classInsecta
- orderHemiptera
- familyCoccidae
- genusSaissetia
- SpeciesSaissetia coffeae (Walker, 1852)
Synonyms Chermes anthurii, Chermes filicum, Chermes hibernaculorum, Coccus coffeae, Eulecanium coffeae hibernacularum, Lecanium anthurii, Lecanium beaumontiae, Lecanium clypeatum, Lecanium coffeae, Lecanium coffeae clypeatum, Lecanium coffeae filicum, Lecanium coffeae hibernacularum, Lecanium filicum, Lecanium hemisphaericum, Lecanium hemisphaericum hibernaculorum, Lecanium hibernaculorum, Lecanium hybernaculorum, Saisettia coffeae, Saissetia anthurii, Saissetia beaumontiae, Saissetia coffee, Saissetia filicum, Saissetia hemisphaerica clypeatum, Saissetia hemisphaerica hibernaculorum, Saissetia hemisphaericum, Saissetia hemisphericum, Sassetia coffeae
Other names and names in other languages (32)
- Brown scaleEnglish
- Hemisphaerical scaleEnglish
- Hemispherical scaleEnglish
- حشرة النصف الكروية الرخوةArabic
- puklice hnědáCzech
- NerieskjoldlusDanish
- Braune kaffeeschildlausGerman
- Escama del caféSpanish
- parsakilpikirvaFinnish
- Cochenille du caféierFrench
- qenima hazi qaduritHebrew
- ヤマタカカイガラムシJapanese
- 철모깍지벌레Korean
- HalveboldopluisDutch
- vaeksthusskjoldlusNorwegian
- cochnilha-hemisfericaPortuguese
- Ложнощитовка полушаровиднаяRussian
- växthussköldlusSwedish
- Caparreta hemisfericaroot
- Rệp sáp mềm bán cầuVietnamese
- 咖啡硬介殼蟲Chinese
- Halbkugelige napfschildlausGerman
- conchuela hemisfericaSpanish
- escama hemisfericaSpanish
- parsakilpikkäFinnish
- cochenille brune du cafféierFrench
- cochenille hémisphériqueFrench
- La cochenille de serreFrench
- ハンエンカタカイガラムシJapanese
- ヤマタカカタカイガラムシJapanese
- polusharovidnaya lozhnoschitovkaRussian
- han-en-kata-kaigaramushiroot
Relatives of the brown coffee scale
Other species in the same genus Saissetia.
Black scale
Saissetia oleae
Mexican black scale
Saissetia miranda
Caribbean black scale
Saissetia neglecta
Coffee soft scale
Saissetia privigna
CompareBrown coffee scale vs Black scaleBrown coffee scale vs Mexican black scaleBrown coffee scale vs Caribbean black scaleBrown coffee scale vs Coffee soft scale
Common questions
Answered only where our data holds the answer.
Where does the brown coffee scale live?
Catalogue of Life checklists list the brown coffee scale for 138 countries, including Afghanistan, Algeria, Angola, Anguilla and Argentina. Checklist coverage is uneven, so the true range may be wider.
What kind of animal is the brown coffee scale?
The brown coffee scale (Saissetia coffeae) belongs to the family Coccidae 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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