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Inga pit scale

Asterolecanium ingae Russell, 1941

Status not recordedinsects

The inga pit scale (Asterolecanium ingae) is a species in the family Asterolecaniidae, order Hemiptera. Source checklists list it for 1 country: Puerto Rico.

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Quick facts about the inga pit 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
1 countrysrc for Countries on record

Where does the inga pit 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 inga pit scale is listed for 1 country.

Puerto Rico
  • Listed
  • Not listed
small islands are not drawn at this scale

The same countries as a list

  1. Puerto Rico

Why a country list is not a range map

Is the inga pit 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 inga pit scale classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. classInsecta
  4. orderHemiptera
  5. familyAsterolecaniidae
  6. genusAsterolecanium
  7. SpeciesAsterolecanium ingae Russell, 1941

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of the inga pit scale

Other species in the same genus Asterolecanium.

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

Where does the inga pit scale live?

Catalogue of Life checklists list the inga pit scale for 1 country: Puerto Rico. Checklist coverage is uneven, so the true range may be wider.

What kind of animal is the inga pit scale?

The inga pit scale (Asterolecanium ingae) belongs to the family Asterolecaniidae 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). Inga pit scale (Asterolecanium ingae). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/inga-pit-scale

MLA

“Inga pit scale (Asterolecanium ingae).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/inga-pit-scale.

BibTeX
@misc{inga_pit_scale_2026,
  title = {Inga pit scale (Asterolecanium ingae)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/inga-pit-scale},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-11}
}