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Cyanotis scale

Aspidiotus excisus Green, 1896

Status not recordedinsects

The cyanotis scale (Aspidiotus excisus) is a species in the family Diaspididae, order Hemiptera. Source checklists list it for 42 countries, including Canada, Chile and China.

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Quick facts about the cyanotis 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
42 countriessrc for Countries on record

Where does the cyanotis 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 cyanotis scale is listed for 42 countries.

FijiCanadaPapua New GuineaIndonesiaChileKenyaHaitiDominican Rep.MexicoPeruColombiaPanamaCosta RicaHondurasEl SalvadorGuatemalaVenezuelaGuyanaSurinameEcuadorPuerto RicoJamaicaMozambiqueThailandVietnamMongoliaIndiaPakistanNetherlandsSri LankaChinaTaiwanMalaysiaJapan
  • Listed
  • Not listed
small islands are not drawn at this scale

The same countries as a list

  1. Canada
  2. Chile
  3. China
  4. Colombia
  5. Costa Rica
  6. Dominican Republic
  7. Ecuador
  8. El Salvador
  9. Fiji
  10. Grenada
  11. Guadeloupe
  12. Guatemala
  13. Guyana
  14. Haiti
  15. Honduras
  16. Hong Kong SAR China
  17. India
  18. Indonesia
  19. Jamaica
  20. Japan
  21. Kenya
  22. Malaysia
  23. Martinique
  24. Mexico
  25. Mongolia
  26. Mozambique
  27. Netherlands
  28. Pakistan
  29. Palau
  30. Panama
  31. Papua New Guinea
  32. Peru
  33. Puerto Rico
  34. Singapore
  35. Sri Lanka
  36. St. Lucia
  37. Suriname
  38. Taiwan
  39. Thailand
  40. U.S. Virgin Islands
Show 2 more countries
  1. Venezuela
  2. Vietnam

Why a country list is not a range map

Is the cyanotis 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 cyanotis scale classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. classInsecta
  4. orderHemiptera
  5. familyDiaspididae
  6. genusAspidiotus
  7. SpeciesAspidiotus excisus Green, 1896

Synonyms Aspidiotus excisus, Temnaspidiotus excisus

Other names and names in other languages (2)
  • Aglaonema scaleEnglish
  • クサギウスマルカイガラムシJapanese

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of the cyanotis scale

Other species in the same genus Aspidiotus.

Ivy scale

Aspidiotus nerii

DiaspididaeNo free photo yet

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

Where does the cyanotis scale live?

Catalogue of Life checklists list the cyanotis scale for 42 countries, including Canada, Chile, China, Colombia and Costa Rica. Checklist coverage is uneven, so the true range may be wider.

What kind of animal is the cyanotis scale?

The cyanotis scale (Aspidiotus excisus) belongs to the family Diaspididae 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). Cyanotis scale (Aspidiotus excisus). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/cyanotis-scale

MLA

“Cyanotis scale (Aspidiotus excisus).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/cyanotis-scale.

BibTeX
@misc{cyanotis_scale_2026,
  title = {Cyanotis scale (Aspidiotus excisus)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/cyanotis-scale},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-11}
}