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Coffee soft scale

Saissetia privigna De Lotto, 1965

Status not recordedinsects

The coffee soft scale (Saissetia privigna) is a species in the family Coccidae, order Hemiptera. Source checklists list it for 15 countries, including Angola, Benin and Egypt.

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Quick facts about the coffee 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
15 countriessrc for Countries on record

Where does the coffee 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 coffee soft scale is listed for 15 countries.

TanzaniaKenyaSouth AfricaZimbabweBeninZambiaAngolaIsraelIndiaPakistanGreeceTurkeySri LankaEritreaEgypt
  • Listed
  • Not listed
small islands are not drawn at this scale

The same countries as a list

  1. Angola
  2. Benin
  3. Egypt
  4. Eritrea
  5. Greece
  6. India
  7. Israel
  8. Kenya
  9. Pakistan
  10. South Africa
  11. Sri Lanka
  12. Tanzania
  13. Türkiye
  14. Zambia
  15. Zimbabwe

Is the coffee 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 coffee soft scale classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. classInsecta
  4. orderHemiptera
  5. familyCoccidae
  6. genusSaissetia
  7. SpeciesSaissetia privigna De Lotto, 1965

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of the coffee soft scale

Other species in the same genus Saissetia.

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Common questions

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Where does the coffee soft scale live?

Catalogue of Life checklists list the coffee soft scale for 15 countries, including Angola, Benin, Egypt, Eritrea and Greece. Checklist coverage is uneven, so the true range may be wider.

What kind of animal is the coffee soft scale?

The coffee soft scale (Saissetia privigna) 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). Coffee soft scale (Saissetia privigna). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/coffee-soft-scale

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“Coffee soft scale (Saissetia privigna).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/coffee-soft-scale.

BibTeX
@misc{coffee_soft_scale_2026,
  title = {Coffee soft scale (Saissetia privigna)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/coffee-soft-scale},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-11}
}