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Mexican mealybug

Phenacoccus gossypii Townsend & Cockerell, 1898

Status not recordedinsects

The mexican mealybug (Phenacoccus gossypii) is a species in the family Pseudococcidae, order Hemiptera. Source checklists list it for 7 countries, including Bahamas, Colombia and Guyana.

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Quick facts about the mexican mealybug

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 the mexican mealybug 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 mealybug is listed for 7 countries.

HaitiBahamasMexicoColombiaGuyanaPuerto RicoSpain
  • Listed
  • Not listed
small islands are not drawn at this scale

The same countries as a list

  1. Bahamas
  2. Colombia
  3. Guyana
  4. Haiti
  5. Mexico
  6. Puerto Rico
  7. Spain

Why a country list is not a range map

Where has it been introduced?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the mexican mealybug as introduced in 1 country.

  1. Canary Islands

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 mexican mealybug 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 mealybug classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. classInsecta
  4. orderHemiptera
  5. familyPseudococcidae
  6. genusPhenacoccus
  7. SpeciesPhenacoccus gossypii Townsend & Cockerell, 1898

Synonyms Phenacoccus helianthi gossypii

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of the mexican mealybug

Other species in the same genus Phenacoccus.

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

Where does the mexican mealybug live?

Catalogue of Life checklists list the mexican mealybug for 7 countries, including Bahamas, Colombia, Guyana, Haiti and Mexico. Checklist coverage is uneven, so the true range may be wider.

Is the mexican mealybug an invasive species?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the mexican mealybug as introduced in 1 country: Canary Islands, but does not flag it as invasive in any of them.

What kind of animal is the mexican mealybug?

The mexican mealybug (Phenacoccus gossypii) belongs to the family Pseudococcidae 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). Mexican mealybug (Phenacoccus gossypii). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/mexican-mealybug

MLA

“Mexican mealybug (Phenacoccus gossypii).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/mexican-mealybug.

BibTeX
@misc{mexican_mealybug_2026,
  title = {Mexican mealybug (Phenacoccus gossypii)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/mexican-mealybug},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-14}
}