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Cashew scale

Pseudaonidia trilobitiformis (Green, 1896)

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The cashew scale (Pseudaonidia trilobitiformis) is a species in the family Diaspididae, order Hemiptera. Source checklists list it for 82 countries, including Angola, Argentina and Australia.

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Quick facts about the cashew 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
82 countriessrc for Countries on record

Where does the cashew 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 cashew scale is listed for 82 countries.

FijiTanzaniaArgentinaDem. Rep. CongoSomaliaKenyaSudanChadHaitiDominican Rep.BahamasSouth AfricaMexicoUruguayBrazilBoliviaPeruColombiaPanamaCosta RicaEl SalvadorGuatemalaBelizeVenezuelaGuyanaSurinameEcuadorPuerto RicoJamaicaCubaZimbabweSenegalMauritaniaBeninNigeriaCameroonTogoGhanaCôte d'IvoireGuineaLiberiaSierra LeoneBurkina FasoCentral African Rep.MalawiMozambiqueAngolaMadagascarGambiaVanuatuCambodiaThailandMyanmarVietnamMongoliaIndiaPakistanNew CaledoniaAustraliaSri LankaTaiwanMalaysiaJapanEgyptUganda
  • Listed
  • Not listed
small islands are not drawn at this scale

The same countries as a list

  1. Angola
  2. Argentina
  3. Australia
  4. Bahamas
  5. Barbados
  6. Belize
  7. Benin
  8. Bolivia
  9. Brazil
  10. Burkina Faso
  11. Cambodia
  12. Cameroon
  13. Cape Verde
  14. Central African Republic
  15. Chad
  16. Christmas Island
  17. Colombia
  18. Comoros
  19. Congo - Kinshasa
  20. Costa Rica
  21. Côte d’Ivoire
  22. Cuba
  23. Dominica
  24. Dominican Republic
  25. Ecuador
  26. Egypt
  27. El Salvador
  28. Fiji
  29. French Guiana
  30. Gambia
  31. Ghana
  32. Grenada
  33. Guadeloupe
  34. Guatemala
  35. Guinea
  36. Guyana
  37. Haiti
  38. Hong Kong SAR China
  39. India
  40. Jamaica
Show 42 more countries
  1. Japan
  2. Kenya
  3. Liberia
  4. Madagascar
  5. Malawi
  6. Malaysia
  7. Maldives
  8. Martinique
  9. Mauritania
  10. Mauritius
  11. Mexico
  12. Mongolia
  13. Mozambique
  14. Myanmar (Burma)
  15. New Caledonia
  16. Nigeria
  17. Pakistan
  18. Panama
  19. Peru
  20. Puerto Rico
  21. Senegal
  22. Seychelles
  23. Sierra Leone
  24. Singapore
  25. Somalia
  26. South Africa
  27. Sri Lanka
  28. St. Lucia
  29. St. Vincent & Grenadines
  30. Sudan
  31. Suriname
  32. Taiwan
  33. Tanzania
  34. Thailand
  35. Togo
  36. U.S. Virgin Islands
  37. Uganda
  38. Uruguay
  39. Vanuatu
  40. Venezuela
  41. Vietnam
  42. Zimbabwe

Why a country list is not a range map

Where has it been introduced?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the cashew scale as introduced in 2 countries.

  1. Ecuador
  2. United States

Introduced means brought by people and now present; invasive means the country's checklist records an impact. A species can be native to one part of a country and introduced in another. Source: Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species (CC BY 4.0).

Is the cashew 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 cashew scale classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. classInsecta
  4. orderHemiptera
  5. familyDiaspididae
  6. genusPseudaonidia
  7. SpeciesPseudaonidia trilobitiformis (Green, 1896)

Synonyms Aspidiotus darutyi, Aspidiotus daruyi, Aspidiotus trilobiformis, Aspidiotus trilobitiformis, Peudaonidia trilobitiformis, Pseudaonidia trilobitiformis darutyi, Pseudaonidiella trilobitiformis, Pseudoaonidia trilobitiformis

Other names and names in other languages (5)
  • Gingging scaleEnglish
  • Trilobe scaleEnglish
  • escama de la hoja del nísperoSpanish
  • koban-gata-maru-kaigaramushiroot
  • 三葉網背盾介殼蟲Chinese

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of the cashew scale

Other species in the same genus Pseudaonidia.

Isis scale

Pseudaonidia obsita

DiaspididaeNo free photo yet

Peony scale

Pseudaonidia paeoniae

DiaspididaeNo free photo yet

CompareCashew scale vs Isis scaleCashew scale vs Peony scaleCashew scale vs Pseudaonidia baikeaeCashew scale vs Pseudaonidia casuarinae

Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

Where does the cashew scale live?

Catalogue of Life checklists list the cashew scale for 82 countries, including Angola, Argentina, Australia, Bahamas and Barbados. Checklist coverage is uneven, so the true range may be wider.

Is the cashew scale an invasive species?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the cashew scale as introduced in 2 countries: Ecuador and United States, but does not flag it as invasive in any of them.

What kind of animal is the cashew scale?

The cashew scale (Pseudaonidia trilobitiformis) belongs to the family Diaspididae in the order Hemiptera.

Sources and how to cite this page

Data as of 2026-11-14. How this page is put together.

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APA

CreatureData. (2026). Cashew scale (Pseudaonidia trilobitiformis). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/cashew-scale

MLA

“Cashew scale (Pseudaonidia trilobitiformis).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/cashew-scale.

BibTeX
@misc{cashew_scale_2026,
  title = {Cashew scale (Pseudaonidia trilobitiformis)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/cashew-scale},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-14}
}