Brown soft scale
Coccus hesperidum Linnaeus, 1758
Status not recordedinsects
The brown soft scale (Coccus hesperidum) is a species in the family Coccidae, order Hemiptera.
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Quick facts about the brown soft 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 soft scale live?
Not recorded
Is the brown soft 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 soft scale classified?
- kingdomAnimalia
- phylumArthropoda
- classInsecta
- orderHemiptera
- familyCoccidae
- genusCoccus
- SpeciesCoccus hesperidum Linnaeus, 1758
Synonyms Calypticus hesperidum, Coccus hesperidum, Lecanium hesperidum
Other names and names in other languages (29)
- Brown soft-scaleEnglish
- Soft brown scaleEnglish
- The coccus of the greenhousesEnglish
- puklice oranžovníkováCzech
- VoksskjoldlusDanish
- OrangenschildlausGerman
- Escama blandaSpanish
- Orangenfägad sköldlusEstonian
- oranssikilpikkäFinnish
- Cochenille marronFrench
- cocciniglia degli agrumiItalian
- ヒラタカタカイガラムシJapanese
- 무화과깍지벌레Korean
- Platte dopluisDutch
- Misecznik cytrusowiecPolish
- ложнощитовка мягкаяRussian
- červec izbovýSlovak
- orangefärgad vaxsköldlusSwedish
- yumusak kosnilTurkish
- 扁堅介殼蟲Chinese
- Cochinilla blandaSpanish
- Cochinilla blanda de los agriosSpanish
- conchuela blandaSpanish
- conchuela blanda de los citrusSpanish
- Chermes des hespéridesFrench
- Cochenille marbréeFrench
- Pou des héspéridesFrench
- Cocciniglia bassa degli agrumiItalian
- Kahverengi Kabuklu BitTurkish
Relatives of the brown soft scale
Other species in the same genus Coccus.
Green scale
Coccus viridis
Long brown scale
Coccus longulus
Citricola scale
Coccus pseudomagnoliarum
Soft green scale
Coccus alpinus
Capparis soft scale
Coccus capparidis
DeLotto iceplant scale
Coccus delottoi
CompareBrown soft scale vs Green scaleBrown soft scale vs Long brown scaleBrown soft scale vs Citricola scaleBrown soft scale vs Soft green scale
Common questions
Answered only where our data holds the answer.
What kind of animal is the brown soft scale?
The brown soft scale (Coccus hesperidum) 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
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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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