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Mealy scale

Icerya purchasi Maskell, 1879

Status not recordedinsects

The mealy scale (Icerya purchasi) is a species in the family Monophlebidae, order Hemiptera. Source checklists list it for 123 countries, including Albania, Algeria and Angola.

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Quick facts about the mealy 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
123 countriessrc for Countries on record

Where does the mealy 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 mealy scale is listed for 123 countries.

FijiTanzaniaPapua New GuineaArgentinaChileDem. Rep. CongoSomaliaKenyaSudanHaitiDominican Rep.RussiaBahamasSouth AfricaMexicoUruguayBoliviaPeruColombiaCosta RicaEl SalvadorGuatemalaVenezuelaGuyanaFranceEcuadorPuerto RicoJamaicaCubaZimbabweSenegalTogoCongoZambiaMalawiMozambiqueAngolaIsraelLebanonMadagascarTunisiaAlgeriaJordanIraqOmanThailandVietnamNorth KoreaSouth KoreaBangladeshPakistanIranSyriaPolandHungaryRomaniaGermanyBulgariaGreeceTurkeyAlbaniaCroatiaSwitzerlandLuxembourgNetherlandsPortugalSpainNew CaledoniaSolomon Is.Sri LankaChinaTaiwanItalyAzerbaijanGeorgiaMalaysiaSloveniaSlovakiaEritreaJapanParaguayYemenSaudi ArabiaCyprusMoroccoEgyptLibyaEthiopiaUgandaSerbiaMontenegroTrinidad and Tobago
  • Listed
  • Not listed
small islands are not drawn at this scale

The same countries as a list

  1. Albania
  2. Algeria
  3. Angola
  4. Argentina
  5. Azerbaijan
  6. Bahamas
  7. Bangladesh
  8. Barbados
  9. Bermuda
  10. Bolivia
  11. Bulgaria
  12. Cape Verde
  13. Cayman Islands
  14. Chile
  15. China
  16. Christmas Island
  17. Cocos (Keeling) Islands
  18. Colombia
  19. Congo - Brazzaville
  20. Congo - Kinshasa
  21. Costa Rica
  22. Croatia
  23. Cuba
  24. Curaçao
  25. Cyprus
  26. Dominica
  27. Dominican Republic
  28. Ecuador
  29. Egypt
  30. El Salvador
  31. Eritrea
  32. Ethiopia
  33. Fiji
  34. France
  35. French Guiana
  36. French Polynesia
  37. Georgia
  38. Germany
  39. Gibraltar
  40. Greece
Show 83 more countries
  1. Guadeloupe
  2. Guam
  3. Guatemala
  4. Guyana
  5. Haiti
  6. Hong Kong SAR China
  7. Hungary
  8. Iran
  9. Iraq
  10. Israel
  11. Italy
  12. Jamaica
  13. Japan
  14. Jordan
  15. Kenya
  16. Kiribati
  17. Lebanon
  18. Libya
  19. Luxembourg
  20. Madagascar
  21. Malawi
  22. Malaysia
  23. Maldives
  24. Malta
  25. Marshall Islands
  26. Martinique
  27. Mauritius
  28. Mexico
  29. Micronesia
  30. Montenegro
  31. Montserrat
  32. Morocco
  33. Mozambique
  34. Netherlands
  35. New Caledonia
  36. Norfolk Island
  37. North Korea
  38. Northern Mariana Islands
  39. Oman
  40. Pakistan
  41. Palau
  42. Papua New Guinea
  43. Paraguay
  44. Peru
  45. Poland
  46. Portugal
  47. Puerto Rico
  48. Romania
  49. Russia
  50. Saudi Arabia
  51. Senegal
  52. Serbia
  53. Seychelles
  54. Singapore
  55. Slovakia
  56. Slovenia
  57. Solomon Islands
  58. Somalia
  59. South Africa
  60. South Korea
  61. Spain
  62. Sri Lanka
  63. St. Helena
  64. St. Kitts & Nevis
  65. St. Lucia
  66. Sudan
  67. Switzerland
  68. Syria
  69. Taiwan
  70. Tanzania
  71. Thailand
  72. Togo
  73. Tonga
  74. Trinidad & Tobago
  75. Tunisia
  76. Türkiye
  77. Uganda
  78. Uruguay
  79. Venezuela
  80. Vietnam
  81. Yemen
  82. Zambia
  83. Zimbabwe

Is the mealy 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 mealy scale classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. classInsecta
  4. orderHemiptera
  5. familyMonophlebidae
  6. genusIcerya
  7. SpeciesIcerya purchasi Maskell, 1879

Synonyms Acerya purchasi, Iceria purchasi, Icerya pulchasi, Icerya purchase, Icerya purchasi citriperda, Icerya purchasi crawii, Icerya purchasi maskelli, Pericerya purchasi, Peryceria purchasi, Perycerya purchasi, Preicerya purchsi, Ycerya purchasi

Other names and names in other languages (53)
  • Australian bugEnglish
  • Australian fluted scaleEnglish
  • Citrus fluted scaleEnglish
  • Cottony cushion scaleEnglish
  • Fluted scaleEnglish
  • White scaleEnglish
  • Australiese luisAfrikaans
  • البق الدقيقى األسترالىArabic
  • Cotonet AcanalatCatalan
  • perlovec zhoubnýCzech
  • Australische SackschildlausGerman
  • Βαμβακάδα των εσπεριδοειδώνGreek
  • escama harinosaSpanish
  • cochenille flûtéeFrench
  • izeriat haadaimHebrew
  • iceria di purchaseItalian
  • イセリアカイガラムシJapanese
  • 이세리아깍지벌레Korean
  • geribde djeroek-luisDutch
  • czerwiec białyPolish
  • pulgão brancoPortuguese
  • Австралийский желобчатый червецRussian
  • červec perlovýSlovak
  • citrussköldlusSwedish
  • torbali kosnilTurkish
  • iseriya-kaigaramushiroot
  • 吹棉蚧Chinese
  • Australische wollschildlausGerman
  • cóccido acanaladoSpanish
  • cochinilla acanalada de los agriosSpanish
  • cochinilla algodonosa australianaSpanish
  • Cochinilla australianaSpanish
  • cochinilla blanca del naranjoSpanish
  • conchuela acanalada de los citricosSpanish
  • conchuela acanalada de los cítricosSpanish
  • escama algodonosaSpanish
  • escama algodonosa de los cítricosSpanish
  • escama australianaSpanish
  • escama lanigeraSpanish
  • cochenille australienneFrench
  • cochenille l’iceryaFrench
  • cochenille periceryaFrench
  • איצריית ההדריםHebrew
  • Cocciniglia cotonosa degli agrumiItalian
  • ワタフキカイガラムシJapanese
  • Australische wolschildluisDutch
  • witte geribde schildluisDutch
  • cochonilha australianaPortuguese
  • Cochonilha-canelada dos CitrinosPortuguese
  • cochonilhaicériaPortuguese
  • pulgao branco da laranjeiraPortuguese
  • Torbalı KoşnilTurkish
  • cochinilla acanalada de Australiaroot

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of the mealy scale

Other species in the same genus Icerya.

CompareMealy scale vs Egyptian IceryaMealy scale vs Breadfruit scaleMealy scale vs Icerya acaciaeMealy scale vs Icerya assamensis

Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

Where does the mealy scale live?

Catalogue of Life checklists list the mealy scale for 123 countries, including Albania, Algeria, Angola, Argentina and Azerbaijan. Checklist coverage is uneven, so the true range may be wider.

What kind of animal is the mealy scale?

The mealy scale (Icerya purchasi) 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). Mealy scale (Icerya purchasi). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/mealy-scale

MLA

“Mealy scale (Icerya purchasi).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/mealy-scale.

BibTeX
@misc{mealy_scale_2026,
  title = {Mealy scale (Icerya purchasi)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/mealy-scale},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-11}
}