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Green scale

Coccus viridis (Green, 1889)

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The green scale (Coccus viridis) is a species in the family Coccidae, order Hemiptera. Source checklists list it for 106 countries, including Algeria, American Samoa and Angola.

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Quick facts about the green 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
106 countriessrc for Countries on record

Where does the green 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 green scale is listed for 106 countries.

FijiTanzaniaPapua New GuineaIndonesiaDem. Rep. CongoKenyaHaitiDominican Rep.BahamasSouth AfricaMexicoBrazilBoliviaPeruColombiaPanamaCosta RicaNicaraguaHondurasEl SalvadorGuatemalaVenezuelaGuyanaSurinameEcuadorPuerto RicoJamaicaCubaSenegalMaliBeninNigerNigeriaCameroonTogoGhanaCôte d'IvoireGuineaGuinea-BissauSierra LeoneBurkina FasoCongoZambiaAngolaMadagascarTunisiaAlgeriaIraqVanuatuCambodiaThailandMyanmarVietnamIndiaBangladeshPakistanNetherlandsPortugalNew CaledoniaSolomon Is.Sri LankaTaiwanUnited KingdomPhilippinesMalaysiaBruneiEritreaJapanYemenEgyptEthiopiaUgandaRwandaTrinidad and Tobago
  • Listed
  • Not listed
small islands are not drawn at this scale

The same countries as a list

  1. Algeria
  2. American Samoa
  3. Angola
  4. Bahamas
  5. Bangladesh
  6. Barbados
  7. Benin
  8. Bermuda
  9. Bolivia
  10. Brazil
  11. Brunei
  12. Burkina Faso
  13. Cambodia
  14. Cameroon
  15. Cape Verde
  16. Cayman Islands
  17. Colombia
  18. Comoros
  19. Congo - Brazzaville
  20. Congo - Kinshasa
  21. Cook Islands
  22. Costa Rica
  23. Côte d’Ivoire
  24. Cuba
  25. Dominica
  26. Dominican Republic
  27. Ecuador
  28. Egypt
  29. El Salvador
  30. Eritrea
  31. Ethiopia
  32. Fiji
  33. French Guiana
  34. French Polynesia
  35. Ghana
  36. Grenada
  37. Guadeloupe
  38. Guam
  39. Guatemala
  40. Guinea
Show 66 more countries
  1. Guinea-Bissau
  2. Guyana
  3. Haiti
  4. Honduras
  5. Hong Kong SAR China
  6. India
  7. Indonesia
  8. Iraq
  9. Jamaica
  10. Japan
  11. Kenya
  12. Kiribati
  13. Madagascar
  14. Malaysia
  15. Mali
  16. Martinique
  17. Mauritius
  18. Mexico
  19. Micronesia
  20. Montserrat
  21. Myanmar (Burma)
  22. Nauru
  23. Netherlands
  24. New Caledonia
  25. Nicaragua
  26. Niger
  27. Nigeria
  28. Niue
  29. Northern Mariana Islands
  30. Pakistan
  31. Palau
  32. Panama
  33. Papua New Guinea
  34. Peru
  35. Philippines
  36. Portugal
  37. Puerto Rico
  38. Rwanda
  39. Samoa
  40. Senegal
  41. Seychelles
  42. Sierra Leone
  43. Singapore
  44. Solomon Islands
  45. South Africa
  46. Sri Lanka
  47. St. Kitts & Nevis
  48. St. Lucia
  49. St. Vincent & Grenadines
  50. Suriname
  51. Taiwan
  52. Tanzania
  53. Thailand
  54. Togo
  55. Tonga
  56. Trinidad & Tobago
  57. Tunisia
  58. Tuvalu
  59. U.S. Virgin Islands
  60. Uganda
  61. United Kingdom
  62. Vanuatu
  63. Venezuela
  64. Vietnam
  65. Yemen
  66. Zambia

Is the green 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 green scale classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. classInsecta
  4. orderHemiptera
  5. familyCoccidae
  6. genusCoccus
  7. SpeciesCoccus viridis (Green, 1889)

Synonyms Coccus viridis bisexualis, Lecanium hesperidum subsp. africanum, Lecanium viridis

Other names and names in other languages (15)
  • Green coffee scaleEnglish
  • Green soft-scaleEnglish
  • Grüne KaffeeschildlausGerman
  • escama verdeSpanish
  • Cochenille verte du caféierFrench
  • ミドリカタカイガラムシJapanese
  • groene dopluisDutch
  • cochonilha-verdePortuguese
  • Ложнощитовка зелёнаяRussian
  • midori-kata-kaigaramushiroot
  • 黃綠介殼蟲Chinese
  • cochinilla verde del caféSpanish
  • Groene koffiedopluisDutch
  • Groene koffieluisDutch
  • lapa-verdePortuguese

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of the green scale

Other species in the same genus Coccus.

CompareGreen scale vs Brown soft scaleGreen scale vs Long brown scaleGreen scale vs Citricola scaleGreen scale vs Soft green scale

Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

Where does the green scale live?

Catalogue of Life checklists list the green scale for 106 countries, including Algeria, American Samoa, Angola, Bahamas and Bangladesh. Checklist coverage is uneven, so the true range may be wider.

What kind of animal is the green scale?

The green scale (Coccus viridis) 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). Green scale (Coccus viridis). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/green-scale

MLA

“Green scale (Coccus viridis).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/green-scale.

BibTeX
@misc{green_scale_2026,
  title = {Green scale (Coccus viridis)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/green-scale},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-11}
}