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Dendrobium mealybug

Pseudococcus dendrobiorum Williams, 1985

Status not recordedinsects

The dendrobium mealybug (Pseudococcus dendrobiorum) is a species in the family Pseudococcidae, order Hemiptera. Source checklists list it for 11 countries, including China, Guam and India.

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Quick facts about the dendrobium mealybug

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
11 countriessrc for Countries on record

Where does the dendrobium mealybug 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 dendrobium mealybug is listed for 11 countries.

Papua New GuineaIndonesiaThailandVietnamSouth KoreaIndiaSri LankaChinaPhilippinesMalaysia
  • Listed
  • Not listed
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The same countries as a list

  1. China
  2. Guam
  3. India
  4. Indonesia
  5. Malaysia
  6. Papua New Guinea
  7. Philippines
  8. South Korea
  9. Sri Lanka
  10. Thailand
  11. Vietnam

Is the dendrobium mealybug 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 dendrobium mealybug classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. classInsecta
  4. orderHemiptera
  5. familyPseudococcidae
  6. genusPseudococcus
  7. SpeciesPseudococcus dendrobiorum Williams, 1985
Other names and names in other languages (1)
  • 난가루깍지벌레Korean

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of the dendrobium mealybug

Other species in the same genus Pseudococcus.

Cape mealybug

Pseudococcus viburni

PseudococcidaeNo free photo yet

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

Where does the dendrobium mealybug live?

Catalogue of Life checklists list the dendrobium mealybug for 11 countries, including China, Guam, India, Indonesia and Malaysia. Checklist coverage is uneven, so the true range may be wider.

What kind of animal is the dendrobium mealybug?

The dendrobium mealybug (Pseudococcus dendrobiorum) belongs to the family Pseudococcidae 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). Dendrobium mealybug (Pseudococcus dendrobiorum). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/dendrobium-mealybug

MLA

“Dendrobium mealybug (Pseudococcus dendrobiorum).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/dendrobium-mealybug.

BibTeX
@misc{dendrobium_mealybug_2026,
  title = {Dendrobium mealybug (Pseudococcus dendrobiorum)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/dendrobium-mealybug},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-11}
}