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Hard wax scale

Ceroplastes sinensis Del Guercio, 1900

Status not recordedinsects

The hard wax scale (Ceroplastes sinensis) is a species in the family Coccidae, order Hemiptera. Source checklists list it for 27 countries, including Algeria, Australia and Bermuda.

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Quick facts about the hard wax 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
27 countriessrc for Countries on record

Where does the hard wax 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 hard wax scale is listed for 27 countries.

ChileMexicoPeruFranceTunisiaAlgeriaIranRomaniaBulgariaGreeceTurkeyCroatiaNetherlandsPortugalSpainSolomon Is.New ZealandAustraliaItalyGeorgiaPhilippinesCyprusMoroccoEgypt
  • Listed
  • Not listed
small islands are not drawn at this scale

The same countries as a list

  1. Algeria
  2. Australia
  3. Bermuda
  4. Bulgaria
  5. Chile
  6. Croatia
  7. Cyprus
  8. Egypt
  9. France
  10. Georgia
  11. Greece
  12. Iran
  13. Italy
  14. Malta
  15. Mexico
  16. Morocco
  17. Netherlands
  18. New Zealand
  19. Norfolk Island
  20. Peru
  21. Philippines
  22. Portugal
  23. Romania
  24. Solomon Islands
  25. Spain
  26. Tunisia
  27. Türkiye

Why a country list is not a range map

Where has it been introduced?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the hard wax scale as introduced in 7 countries.

  1. Australia
  2. Canary Islands
  3. Croatia
  4. Cyprus
  5. Ecuador
  6. Russia
  7. United States

Introduced means brought by people and now present; invasive means the country's checklist records an impact. A species can be native to one part of a country and introduced in another. Source: Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species (CC BY 4.0).

Is the hard wax 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 hard wax scale classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. classInsecta
  4. orderHemiptera
  5. familyCoccidae
  6. genusCeroplastes
  7. SpeciesCeroplastes sinensis Del Guercio, 1900
Other names and names in other languages (14)
  • Chinese wax scaleEnglish
  • Citrus wax scaleEnglish
  • ZitrusschildlausGerman
  • Caparreta blancaSpanish
  • céroplaste des agrumesFrench
  • ceroplaste cinese degli agrumiItalian
  • caparreta-brancaPortuguese
  • Китайская восковая ложнощитовкаRussian
  • kanli balsiraTurkish
  • 中華龜蠟蚧Chinese
  • Chinesische WachsschildlauseGerman
  • carrapeta-brancaPortuguese
  • cracaPortuguese
  • Ложнощитовка восковая цитрусоваяRussian

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of the hard wax scale

Other species in the same genus Ceroplastes.

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Ceroplastes rusci

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

Where does the hard wax scale live?

Catalogue of Life checklists list the hard wax scale for 27 countries, including Algeria, Australia, Bermuda, Bulgaria and Chile. Checklist coverage is uneven, so the true range may be wider.

Is the hard wax scale an invasive species?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the hard wax scale as introduced in 7 countries, including Australia, Canary Islands, Croatia, Cyprus and Ecuador, but does not flag it as invasive in any of them.

What kind of animal is the hard wax scale?

The hard wax scale (Ceroplastes sinensis) belongs to the family Coccidae in the order Hemiptera.

Sources and how to cite this page

Data as of 2026-11-14. How this page is put together.

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APA

CreatureData. (2026). Hard wax scale (Ceroplastes sinensis). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/hard-wax-scale

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“Hard wax scale (Ceroplastes sinensis).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/hard-wax-scale.

BibTeX
@misc{hard_wax_scale_2026,
  title = {Hard wax scale (Ceroplastes sinensis)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/hard-wax-scale},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-14}
}