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Cottony hydrangea scale

Pulvinaria kuwacola Kuwana, 1907

Status not recordedinsects

The cottony hydrangea scale (Pulvinaria kuwacola) is a species in the family Coccidae, order Hemiptera. Source checklists list it for 23 countries, including Austria, Belgium and Bulgaria.

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Quick facts about the cottony hydrangea 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
23 countriessrc for Countries on record

Where does the cottony hydrangea 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 cottony hydrangea scale is listed for 23 countries.

UzbekistanFranceSouth KoreaSwedenPolandAustriaHungaryRomaniaGermanyBulgariaCroatiaSwitzerlandLuxembourgBelgiumNetherlandsNew ZealandChinaItalySloveniaSlovakiaJapanSerbia
  • Listed
  • Not listed
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The same countries as a list

  1. Austria
  2. Belgium
  3. Bulgaria
  4. China
  5. Croatia
  6. France
  7. Germany
  8. Hong Kong SAR China
  9. Hungary
  10. Italy
  11. Japan
  12. Luxembourg
  13. Netherlands
  14. New Zealand
  15. Poland
  16. Romania
  17. Serbia
  18. Slovakia
  19. Slovenia
  20. South Korea
  21. Sweden
  22. Switzerland
  23. Uzbekistan

Why a country list is not a range map

Where has it been introduced?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the cottony hydrangea scale as introduced in 6 countries, and flagged as invasive in 1 of them.

  1. Netherlandsinvasive
  2. Belgium
  3. Canary Islands
  4. Croatia
  5. France
  6. United Kingdom

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 cottony hydrangea 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 cottony hydrangea scale classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. classInsecta
  4. orderHemiptera
  5. familyCoccidae
  6. genusPulvinaria
  7. SpeciesPulvinaria kuwacola Kuwana, 1907

Synonyms Eupulvinaria hydrangeae, Pulvinaria fujisana, Pulvinaria hydrangeae, Pulvinaria kuwakola

Other names and names in other languages (8)
  • HortensienwollschildlausGerman
  • cochinilla blanda algodonosa de la hortensiaSpanish
  • Cochenille pulvinaire de l’hortensiaFrench
  • pulvinaria del tiglio e dell'ortensiaItalian
  • クワワタカイガラムシJapanese
  • wollige dopluisDutch
  • Azisai-wata-kaigaramushiroot
  • pulvinaria del tiglio e dell’ortensiaItalian

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of the cottony hydrangea scale

Other species in the same genus Pulvinaria.

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

Where does the cottony hydrangea scale live?

Catalogue of Life checklists list the cottony hydrangea scale for 23 countries, including Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, China and Croatia. Checklist coverage is uneven, so the true range may be wider.

Is the cottony hydrangea scale an invasive species?

In some places. The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species flags the cottony hydrangea scale as invasive in 1 country: Netherlands. It lists it as introduced in 6 in all.

What kind of animal is the cottony hydrangea scale?

The cottony hydrangea scale (Pulvinaria kuwacola) belongs to the family Coccidae 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). Cottony hydrangea scale (Pulvinaria kuwacola). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/cottony-hydrangea-scale

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“Cottony hydrangea scale (Pulvinaria kuwacola).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/cottony-hydrangea-scale.

BibTeX
@misc{cottony_hydrangea_scale_2026,
  title = {Cottony hydrangea scale (Pulvinaria kuwacola)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/cottony-hydrangea-scale},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-14}
}