# Green scale (*Coccus viridis*)

Canonical page: https://creaturedata.com/animals/green-scale  
Data as of: 2026-11-11

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.

## Quick facts

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| 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 countries |

## Classification

- kingdom: Animalia
- phylum: Arthropoda
- class: Insecta
- order: Hemiptera
- family: Coccidae
- genus: Coccus
- species: *Coccus viridis* (Green, 1889)

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

## Where it has been recorded

Countries with openly licensed sighting records on GBIF (records in brackets). Recorded sightings, not a definitive range.

Angola (0), American Samoa (0), Barbados (0), Bangladesh (0), Burkina Faso (0), Benin (0), Bermuda (0), Brunei (0), Bolivia (0), Brazil (0), Bahamas (0), Congo - Kinshasa (0), Congo - Brazzaville (0), Côte d’Ivoire (0), Cook Islands (0), Cameroon (0), Colombia (0), Costa Rica (0), Cuba (0), Cape Verde (0), Dominica (0), Dominican Republic (0), Algeria (0), Ecuador (0), Egypt (0), Eritrea (0), Ethiopia (0), Fiji (0), Micronesia (0), United Kingdom (0), Grenada (0), French Guiana (0), Ghana (0), Guinea (0), Guadeloupe (0), Guatemala (0), Guam (0), Guinea-Bissau (0), Guyana (0), Hong Kong SAR China (0), Honduras (0), Haiti (0), Indonesia (0), India (0), Iraq (0), Jamaica (0), Japan (0), Kenya (0), Cambodia (0), Kiribati (0), Comoros (0), St. Kitts & Nevis (0), Cayman Islands (0), St. Lucia (0), Sri Lanka (0), Madagascar (0), Mali (0), Myanmar (Burma) (0), Northern Mariana Islands (0), Martinique (0), and 46 more

## Common questions

### 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

- [An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles](https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.3563457.v1), CC0 1.0, E096-269. Myhrvold, N.P., Baldridge, E., Chan, B., Sivam, D., Freeman, D.L. & Ernest, S.K.M. (2015) An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96: 3109. https://doi.org/10.1890/15-0846R.1. Data: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.3563457.v1
- [AmphiBIO, a global database for amphibian ecological traits](https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.4644424.v5), CC BY 4.0, v1. Oliveira, B.F., São-Pedro, V.A., Santos-Barrera, G., Penone, C. & Costa, G.C. (2017) AmphiBIO, a global database for amphibian ecological traits. Scientific Data 4: 170123. https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2017.123. Data: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.4644424.v5
- [AVONET: morphological, ecological and geographical data for all birds](https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.16586228.v7), CC BY 4.0, v7. Tobias, J.A. et al. (2022) AVONET: morphological, ecological and geographical data for all birds. Ecology Letters 25: 581–597. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13898. Data: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.16586228.v7
- [Catalogue of Life eXtended Release](https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/316691), 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
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