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Mexican black scale

Saissetia miranda (Cockerell & Parrott, 1899)

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The mexican black scale (Saissetia miranda) is a species in the family Coccidae, order Hemiptera. Source checklists list it for 35 countries, including Algeria, Australia and Bermuda.

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Quick facts about the mexican black 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
35 countriessrc for Countries on record

Where does the mexican black 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 mexican black scale is listed for 35 countries.

FijiPapua New GuineaSouth AfricaMexicoBrazilPanamaHondurasEl SalvadorPuerto RicoCubaTunisiaAlgeriaIraqSouth KoreaIndiaIranNetherlandsPortugalNew CaledoniaSolomon Is.AustraliaTaiwanJapan
  • Listed
  • Not listed
small islands are not drawn at this scale

The same countries as a list

  1. Algeria
  2. Australia
  3. Bermuda
  4. Brazil
  5. Cape Verde
  6. Cook Islands
  7. Cuba
  8. El Salvador
  9. Fiji
  10. French Polynesia
  11. Guadeloupe
  12. Honduras
  13. Hong Kong SAR China
  14. India
  15. Iran
  16. Iraq
  17. Japan
  18. Kiribati
  19. Mexico
  20. Netherlands
  21. New Caledonia
  22. Niue
  23. Panama
  24. Papua New Guinea
  25. Portugal
  26. Puerto Rico
  27. Samoa
  28. Solomon Islands
  29. South Africa
  30. South Korea
  31. St. Lucia
  32. Taiwan
  33. Tonga
  34. Tunisia
  35. U.S. Virgin Islands

Why a country list is not a range map

Is the mexican black 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 mexican black scale classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. classInsecta
  4. orderHemiptera
  5. familyCoccidae
  6. genusSaissetia
  7. SpeciesSaissetia miranda (Cockerell & Parrott, 1899)

Synonyms Lecanium miranda, Lecanium oleae mirandum, Saissetia oleae miranda

Other names and names in other languages (2)
  • ニセオリーブカタカイガラJapanese
  • モモタマナカタカイガラムシJapanese

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of the mexican black scale

Other species in the same genus Saissetia.

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Common questions

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Where does the mexican black scale live?

Catalogue of Life checklists list the mexican black scale for 35 countries, including Algeria, Australia, Bermuda, Brazil and Cape Verde. Checklist coverage is uneven, so the true range may be wider.

What kind of animal is the mexican black scale?

The mexican black scale (Saissetia miranda) 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). Mexican black scale (Saissetia miranda). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/mexican-black-scale

MLA

“Mexican black scale (Saissetia miranda).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/mexican-black-scale.

BibTeX
@misc{mexican_black_scale_2026,
  title = {Mexican black scale (Saissetia miranda)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/mexican-black-scale},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-11}
}