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Icerya samaraia

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Icerya samaraia is a species in the family Monophlebidae, order Hemiptera. Source checklists list it for 7 countries, including Guam, Malaysia and New Caledonia.

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Quick facts about Icerya samaraia

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
7 countriessrc for Countries on record

Where does Icerya samaraia 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.

Icerya samaraia is listed for 7 countries.

Papua New GuineaNew CaledoniaSolomon Is.Malaysia
  • Listed
  • Not listed
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The same countries as a list

  1. Guam
  2. Malaysia
  3. New Caledonia
  4. Northern Mariana Islands
  5. Palau
  6. Papua New Guinea
  7. Solomon Islands

Why a country list is not a range map

Is Icerya samaraia 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 Icerya samaraia classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. classInsecta
  4. orderHemiptera
  5. familyMonophlebidae
  6. genusIcerya
  7. SpeciesIcerya samaraia (Morrison, 1927)

Synonyms Steatococcus samaraia

Other names and names in other languages (1)
  • Cochinilla acanalada SamaraiaSpanish

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of Icerya samaraia

Other species in the same genus Icerya.

Mealy scale

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Common questions

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Where does Icerya samaraia live?

Catalogue of Life checklists list Icerya samaraia for 7 countries, including Guam, Malaysia, New Caledonia, Northern Mariana Islands and Palau. Checklist coverage is uneven, so the true range may be wider.

What kind of animal is Icerya samaraia?

Icerya samaraia (Icerya samaraia) belongs to the family Monophlebidae 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). Icerya samaraia (Icerya samaraia). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/icerya-samaraia

MLA

“Icerya samaraia (Icerya samaraia).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/icerya-samaraia.

BibTeX
@misc{icerya_samaraia_2026,
  title = {Icerya samaraia (Icerya samaraia)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/icerya-samaraia},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-11}
}