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Guava soft scale

Pulvinaria psidii Maskell, 1893

Status not recordedinsects

The guava soft scale (Pulvinaria psidii) is a species in the family Coccidae, order Hemiptera. Source checklists list it for 88 countries, including Afghanistan, Algeria and Angola.

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Quick facts about the guava soft 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
88 countriessrc for Countries on record

Where does the guava soft 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 guava soft scale is listed for 88 countries.

FijiTanzaniaPapua New GuineaIndonesiaDem. Rep. CongoKenyaSudanHaitiDominican Rep.BahamasSouth AfricaBrazilPeruColombiaCosta RicaGuatemalaVenezuelaGuyanaSurinameEcuadorPuerto RicoJamaicaCubaZimbabweSenegalNigeriaGhanaCôte d'IvoireCongoMalawiMozambiqueAngolaIsraelMadagascarTunisiaAlgeriaVanuatuCambodiaThailandVietnamIndiaBangladeshBhutanNepalPakistanAfghanistanNetherlandsSpainNew CaledoniaSolomon Is.New ZealandAustraliaSri LankaTaiwanGeorgiaPhilippinesMalaysiaBruneiEritreaJapanEgyptUganda
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The same countries as a list

  1. Afghanistan
  2. Algeria
  3. Angola
  4. Australia
  5. Bahamas
  6. Bangladesh
  7. Barbados
  8. Bermuda
  9. Bhutan
  10. Brazil
  11. Brunei
  12. Cambodia
  13. Cape Verde
  14. Christmas Island
  15. Colombia
  16. Comoros
  17. Congo - Brazzaville
  18. Congo - Kinshasa
  19. Cook Islands
  20. Costa Rica
  21. Côte d’Ivoire
  22. Cuba
  23. Dominican Republic
  24. Ecuador
  25. Egypt
  26. Eritrea
  27. Fiji
  28. French Polynesia
  29. Georgia
  30. Ghana
  31. Grenada
  32. Guadeloupe
  33. Guatemala
  34. Guyana
  35. Haiti
  36. Hong Kong SAR China
  37. India
  38. Indonesia
  39. Israel
  40. Jamaica
Show 48 more countries
  1. Japan
  2. Kenya
  3. Kiribati
  4. Madagascar
  5. Malawi
  6. Malaysia
  7. Marshall Islands
  8. Martinique
  9. Mauritius
  10. Montserrat
  11. Mozambique
  12. Nauru
  13. Nepal
  14. Netherlands
  15. New Caledonia
  16. New Zealand
  17. Nigeria
  18. Niue
  19. Northern Mariana Islands
  20. Pakistan
  21. Palau
  22. Papua New Guinea
  23. Peru
  24. Philippines
  25. Puerto Rico
  26. Samoa
  27. Senegal
  28. Seychelles
  29. Singapore
  30. Solomon Islands
  31. South Africa
  32. Spain
  33. Sri Lanka
  34. St. Helena
  35. St. Vincent & Grenadines
  36. Sudan
  37. Suriname
  38. Taiwan
  39. Tanzania
  40. Thailand
  41. Tonga
  42. Tunisia
  43. U.S. Virgin Islands
  44. Uganda
  45. Vanuatu
  46. Venezuela
  47. Vietnam
  48. Zimbabwe

Is the guava soft 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 guava soft scale classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. classInsecta
  4. orderHemiptera
  5. familyCoccidae
  6. genusPulvinaria
  7. SpeciesPulvinaria psidii Maskell, 1893

Synonyms Chloropulvinaria psidii, Lecanium vacuolatum, Pulvinaria cupaniae, Pulvinaria cussoniae, Pulvinaria darwiniensis, Pulvinaria gymnosporiae, Pulvinaria psidii philippina

Other names and names in other languages (10)
  • Green shield scaleEnglish
  • Guava mealy scaleEnglish
  • koejawel pulvinariaAfrikaans
  • حشرة الجوافة الرخوةArabic
  • escama blanda algodonosa del guayaboSpanish
  • サカキワタカイガラムシJapanese
  • groene djamboe-dopluisDutch
  • midori-wata-kaigaramushiroot
  • 黃綠綿介殼蟲Chinese
  • ミドリワタカイガラムシJapanese

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of the guava soft scale

Other species in the same genus Pulvinaria.

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

Where does the guava soft scale live?

Catalogue of Life checklists list the guava soft scale for 88 countries, including Afghanistan, Algeria, Angola, Australia and Bahamas. Checklist coverage is uneven, so the true range may be wider.

What kind of animal is the guava soft scale?

The guava soft scale (Pulvinaria psidii) 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). Guava soft scale (Pulvinaria psidii). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/guava-soft-scale

MLA

“Guava soft scale (Pulvinaria psidii).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/guava-soft-scale.

BibTeX
@misc{guava_soft_scale_2026,
  title = {Guava soft scale (Pulvinaria psidii)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/guava-soft-scale},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-11}
}