Brown scale
Parthenolecanium corni (Bouché, 1844)
Status not recordedinsects
The brown scale (Parthenolecanium corni) is a species in the family Coccidae, order Hemiptera.
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Quick facts about the brown 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
- Not recorded
Where does the brown scale live?
Not recorded
Is the brown 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 scale classified?
- kingdomAnimalia
- phylumArthropoda
- classInsecta
- orderHemiptera
- familyCoccidae
- genusParthenolecanium
- SpeciesParthenolecanium corni (Bouché, 1844)
Synonyms Eulecanium corni, Lecanium corni, Lecanium corni corni
Other names and names in other languages (31)
- Brown apricot scaleEnglish
- European fruit lecaniumEnglish
- European fruit scaleEnglish
- puklice švestkováCzech
- HornskjoldlusDanish
- Gewonliche SchildlausGerman
- cochinilla de la vidSpanish
- Põõsa-ebakilptäiEstonian
- cochenille du cornouillerFrench
- cocciniglia del cornioloItalian
- ミズキカタイガラムシJapanese
- 말채나무공깍지벌레Korean
- Serbentinis skydamarisLithuanian
- gewone dopluisDutch
- vanlig sköldlusNorwegian
- misecznik śliwowyPolish
- Ложнощитовка акациеваяRussian
- puklica slivkováSlovak
- Fındık KoşniliTurkish
- Almindelig skjoldlusDanish
- GyvelskjoldlusDanish
- HasselskjoldlusDanish
- Zwetschgen-NapfschildlausGerman
- conchuela cafe europea de la vidSpanish
- Cochenille européenne des vergersFrench
- Le lecanium du cornuillerFrench
- Lécanine du cornouiller et de la vigneFrench
- La cocciniglia del susinoItalian
- モクレンノカタカイガラムシJapanese
- モモカタカイガラムシJapanese
- Kahverengi KoşnilTurkish
Relatives of the brown scale
Other species in the same genus Parthenolecanium.
Peach scale
Parthenolecanium persicae
Oak lecanium
Parthenolecanium quercifex
Fletcher scale
Parthenolecanium fletcheri
Yew scale
Parthenolecanium pomeranicum
Prune scale
Parthenolecanium pruinosum
Oak soft scale
Parthenolecanium rufulum
CompareBrown scale vs Peach scaleBrown scale vs Oak lecaniumBrown scale vs Fletcher scaleBrown scale vs Yew scale
Common questions
Answered only where our data holds the answer.
What kind of animal is the brown scale?
The brown scale (Parthenolecanium corni) 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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Oliveira, B.F., São-Pedro, V.A., Santos-Barrera, G., Penone, C. & Costa, G.C. (2017) AmphiBIO, a global database for amphibian ecological traits. Scientific Data 4: 170123. https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2017.123. Data: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.4644424.v5 - AVONET: morphological, ecological and geographical data for all birds · CC BY 4.0 · v7
Tobias, J.A. et al. (2022) AVONET: morphological, ecological and geographical data for all birds. Ecology Letters 25: 581–597. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13898. Data: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.16586228.v7 - Catalogue of Life eXtended Release · CC BY 4.0 · 2026-10-16 XR
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Wikipedia contributors. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. https://en.wikipedia.org (text under CC BY-SA 4.0; each block names its article and revision).
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