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Camellia soft scale

Pulvinaria floccifera (Westwood, 1870)

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The camellia soft scale (Pulvinaria floccifera) is a species in the family Coccidae, order Hemiptera. Source checklists list it for 8 countries, including Algeria, Canada and Cyprus.

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Quick facts about the camellia 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
8 countriessrc for Countries on record

Where does the camellia soft 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 camellia soft scale is listed for 8 countries.

CanadaNorwayFranceAlgeriaIndiaJapanCyprusSerbia
  • Listed
  • Not listed
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The same countries as a list

  1. Algeria
  2. Canada
  3. Cyprus
  4. France
  5. India
  6. Japan
  7. Norway
  8. Serbia

Why a country list is not a range map

Is the camellia 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 camellia soft scale classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. classInsecta
  4. orderHemiptera
  5. familyCoccidae
  6. genusPulvinaria
  7. SpeciesPulvinaria floccifera (Westwood, 1870)

Synonyms Chloropulvinaria floccifera, Chloropulvinaria ochnaceae, Coccus floccifera, Coccus ochnaceae, Lecanium ochnaceae, Pulvaria floccifera, Pulvinaria camelicola, Pulvinaria floccosa, Pulvinaria linearis, Pulvinaria ochnaceae

Other names and names in other languages (13)
  • Cottony camelia scaleEnglish
  • Cottony camellia scaleEnglish
  • katjiepiering pulvinariaAfrikaans
  • حشرة الكاميليا الرخوةArabic
  • Camelia-skjoldlusDanish
  • escama blanda algodonosa de las cameliasSpanish
  • chermes du caméliaFrench
  • cocciniglia cotonosaItalian
  • Okitsu-wata-kaigaramushiJapanese
  • Lange wollige dopluisDutch
  • prodolgovataya podushechnitsaRussian
  • Pulvinariaroot
  • Okitsu-wata-kaigaramuchiroot

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of the camellia soft scale

Other species in the same genus Pulvinaria.

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Common questions

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Where does the camellia soft scale live?

Catalogue of Life checklists list the camellia soft scale for 8 countries, including Algeria, Canada, Cyprus, France and India. Checklist coverage is uneven, so the true range may be wider.

What kind of animal is the camellia soft scale?

The camellia soft scale (Pulvinaria floccifera) 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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APA

CreatureData. (2026). Camellia soft scale (Pulvinaria floccifera). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/camellia-soft-scale

MLA

“Camellia soft scale (Pulvinaria floccifera).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/camellia-soft-scale.

BibTeX
@misc{camellia_soft_scale_2026,
  title = {Camellia soft scale (Pulvinaria floccifera)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/camellia-soft-scale},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-11}
}