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Cottony vine scale

Pulvinaria vitis (Linnaeus, 1758)

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The cottony vine scale (Pulvinaria vitis) is a species in the family Coccidae, order Hemiptera. Source checklists list it for 45 countries, including Algeria, Armenia and Austria.

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Quick facts about the cottony vine 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
45 countriessrc for Countries on record

Where does the cottony vine 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 vine scale is listed for 45 countries.

KazakhstanNorwayBrazilFranceIsraelAlgeriaJordanMongoliaTajikistanTurkmenistanIranArmeniaSwedenUkrainePolandAustriaHungaryMoldovaRomaniaLithuaniaLatviaGermanyBulgariaGreeceTurkeyCroatiaSwitzerlandLuxembourgNetherlandsPortugalSpainIrelandNew ZealandChinaItalyDenmarkAzerbaijanGeorgiaSloveniaFinlandCzechiaJapanMoroccoSerbia
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The same countries as a list

  1. Algeria
  2. Armenia
  3. Austria
  4. Azerbaijan
  5. Brazil
  6. Bulgaria
  7. China
  8. Croatia
  9. Czechia
  10. Denmark
  11. Finland
  12. France
  13. Georgia
  14. Germany
  15. Greece
  16. Hungary
  17. Iran
  18. Ireland
  19. Israel
  20. Italy
  21. Japan
  22. Jordan
  23. Kazakhstan
  24. Latvia
  25. Lithuania
  26. Luxembourg
  27. Malta
  28. Moldova
  29. Mongolia
  30. Morocco
  31. Netherlands
  32. New Zealand
  33. Norway
  34. Poland
  35. Portugal
  36. Romania
  37. Serbia
  38. Slovenia
  39. Spain
  40. Sweden
Show 5 more countries
  1. Switzerland
  2. Tajikistan
  3. Türkiye
  4. Turkmenistan
  5. Ukraine

Why a country list is not a range map

Is the cottony vine 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 vine scale classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. classInsecta
  4. orderHemiptera
  5. familyCoccidae
  6. genusPulvinaria
  7. SpeciesPulvinaria vitis (Linnaeus, 1758)

Synonyms Calypticus spumosus, Chermes carpini, Chermes crataegi, Coccus betulae, Coccus carpini, Coccus crataegi, Coccus mespili, Coccus oxyacanthae, Coccus salicis, Coccus vitis, Lecanium americanum, Lecanium betulae, Lecanium carpini, Lecanium crataegi, Lecanium maclurae, Lecanium salicis, Pulvinaria betulae subsp. alni, Pulvinaria carpini, Pulvinaria hunteri, Pulvinaria innumerabilis tiliae, Pulvinaria maclurae, Pulvinaria oxyacanthae, Pulvinaria populi, Pulvinaria ribesiae, Pulvinaria salicis, Pulvinaria tiliae, Pulvinaria vites, Pulvinaria vitis opacus, Pulvinaria vitis sorbusae, Pulvinaria vitis verrucosae

Other names and names in other languages (20)
  • Cottony grape scaleEnglish
  • The coccus of Vitis viniferaEnglish
  • Woolly currant scale insectEnglish
  • Woolly vine scale insectEnglish
  • puklice březováCzech
  • vinskjoldlusDanish
  • JohannisbeerwollausGerman
  • cochinilla algodonosa de la vidSpanish
  • Cochenille floconneuse de la vigneFrench
  • cocciniglia cotonosa della viteItalian
  • ブドウワタカイガラムシJapanese
  • DruivendopluisDutch
  • cochonilha-vermelha-da-vinhaPortuguese
  • подушечница винограднаяRussian
  • červec brezovýSlovak
  • Bag tobali kosniliTurkish
  • tok yostiqsimon qurtiUzbek
  • BessenwoldopluisDutch
  • wijngaarddopluisDutch
  • Wollige dopluisDutch

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of the cottony vine 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 vine scale live?

Catalogue of Life checklists list the cottony vine scale for 45 countries, including Algeria, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan and Brazil. Checklist coverage is uneven, so the true range may be wider.

What kind of animal is the cottony vine scale?

The cottony vine scale (Pulvinaria vitis) 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). Cottony vine scale (Pulvinaria vitis). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/cottony-vine-scale

MLA

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

BibTeX
@misc{cottony_vine_scale_2026,
  title = {Cottony vine scale (Pulvinaria vitis)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/cottony-vine-scale},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-11}
}