Date palm scale
Parlatoria blanchardi (Targioni Tozzetti, 1892)
Status not recordedinsects
The date palm scale (Parlatoria blanchardi) is a species in the family Diaspididae, order Hemiptera. Source checklists list it for 41 countries, including Afghanistan, Algeria and Argentina.
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Quick facts about the date palm 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
- 41 countriessrc for Countries on record
Where does the date palm 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 date palm scale is listed for 41 countries.
- Listed
- Not listed
The same countries as a list
- Afghanistan
- Algeria
- Argentina
- Australia
- Bahrain
- Bolivia
- Brazil
- Chad
- Cyprus
- Egypt
- Eritrea
- France
- India
- Iran
- Iraq
- Israel
- Italy
- Jamaica
- Jordan
- Kenya
- Kuwait
- Libya
- Mali
- Mauritania
- Mauritius
- Montserrat
- Morocco
- Niger
- Oman
- Pakistan
- Qatar
- Saudi Arabia
- Somalia
- Spain
- Sudan
- Syria
- Tunisia
- Türkiye
- Turkmenistan
- United Arab Emirates
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Is the date palm 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 date palm scale classified?
- kingdomAnimalia
- phylumArthropoda
- classInsecta
- orderHemiptera
- familyDiaspididae
- genusParlatoria
- SpeciesParlatoria blanchardi (Targioni Tozzetti, 1892)
Synonyms Aonidia blanchardi, Apteronidia blanchardi, Coccus blanchardi, Parlatorea blanchardi, Parlatoria blanchardi, Parlatoria blanchardi victrix, Parlatoria blanchardii, Parlatoria brauchardi, Parlatoria palmae, Parlatoria proteus palmae, Parlatoria victrix, Websteriella blanchardi
Other names and names in other languages (9)
- Parlatoria date scaleEnglish
- حشرة النخيل القشرية البيضاءArabic
- Braune DattelpalmenschildlausGerman
- cochinilla de la datileraSpanish
- la cochenille blancheFrench
- he parlatoria shel hatamarHebrew
- cocciniglia dei datteriItalian
- Щитовка финиковаяRussian
- حشرة بارالتوريا النخيل القشريةArabic
Relatives of the date palm scale
Other species in the same genus Parlatoria.
Olive scale
Parlatoria oleae
Chaff scale
Parlatoria pergandii
Ebony scale
Parlatoria ziziphi
Fuller scale
Parlatoria fulleri
Pittosporum scale
Parlatoria pittospori
Camellia parlatoria scale
Parlatoria camelliae
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Common questions
Answered only where our data holds the answer.
Where does the date palm scale live?
Catalogue of Life checklists list the date palm scale for 41 countries, including Afghanistan, Algeria, Argentina, Australia and Bahrain. Checklist coverage is uneven, so the true range may be wider.
What kind of animal is the date palm scale?
The date palm scale (Parlatoria blanchardi) 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.
- Catalogue of Life eXtended Release · CC BY 4.0 · 2026-10-16 XR
Catalogue of Life (2026). Catalogue of Life eXtended Release, version 2026-10-16 XR. Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgzlf - Wikimedia Commons · per file (CC0 / public domain / CC BY green, CC BY-SA amber, anything else not displayed) · 2026-11-11
Wikimedia Commons contributors. Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org (each file credited to its author under its own licence). - Wikidata · CC0 1.0 · 2026-11-11
Wikidata contributors. Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org (data retrieved via the Wikidata Query Service). - Wikipedia (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 2026-11-11
Wikipedia contributors. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. https://en.wikipedia.org (text under CC BY-SA 4.0; each block names its article and revision).
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