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Palm scale

Eucalymnatus tessellatus (Signoret, 1873)

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The palm scale (Eucalymnatus tessellatus) is a species in the family Coccidae, order Hemiptera. Source checklists list it for 64 countries, including Algeria, Australia and Bermuda.

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Quick facts about the palm 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
64 countriessrc for Countries on record

Where does the palm 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 palm scale is listed for 64 countries.

FijiTanzaniaPapua New GuineaIndonesiaChileKenyaHaitiDominican Rep.South AfricaMexicoColombiaCosta RicaHondurasGuatemalaVenezuelaGuyanaFrancePuerto RicoJamaicaCubaMadagascarAlgeriaVanuatuThailandVietnamSouth KoreaIndiaSwedenPolandHungaryGermanyBulgariaTurkeySpainNew CaledoniaSolomon Is.AustraliaSri LankaTaiwanItalyDenmarkGeorgiaMalaysiaJapanMoroccoEgyptEthiopia
  • Listed
  • Not listed
small islands are not drawn at this scale

The same countries as a list

  1. Algeria
  2. Australia
  3. Bermuda
  4. Bulgaria
  5. Cape Verde
  6. Chile
  7. Colombia
  8. Comoros
  9. Cook Islands
  10. Costa Rica
  11. Cuba
  12. Denmark
  13. Dominican Republic
  14. Egypt
  15. Ethiopia
  16. Fiji
  17. France
  18. French Guiana
  19. Georgia
  20. Germany
  21. Guadeloupe
  22. Guatemala
  23. Guyana
  24. Haiti
  25. Honduras
  26. Hungary
  27. India
  28. Indonesia
  29. Italy
  30. Jamaica
  31. Japan
  32. Kenya
  33. Kiribati
  34. Madagascar
  35. Malaysia
  36. Martinique
  37. Mauritius
  38. Mexico
  39. Morocco
  40. New Caledonia
Show 24 more countries
  1. Norfolk Island
  2. Palau
  3. Papua New Guinea
  4. Poland
  5. Puerto Rico
  6. Samoa
  7. Seychelles
  8. Solomon Islands
  9. South Africa
  10. South Korea
  11. Spain
  12. Sri Lanka
  13. St. Lucia
  14. Sweden
  15. Taiwan
  16. Tanzania
  17. Thailand
  18. Tonga
  19. Türkiye
  20. Tuvalu
  21. U.S. Virgin Islands
  22. Vanuatu
  23. Venezuela
  24. Vietnam

Why a country list is not a range map

Where has it been introduced?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the palm scale as introduced in 6 countries.

  1. Australia
  2. Denmark
  3. France
  4. Japan
  5. Poland
  6. United States

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 palm 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 palm scale classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. classInsecta
  4. orderHemiptera
  5. familyCoccidae
  6. genusEucalymnatus
  7. SpeciesEucalymnatus tessellatus (Signoret, 1873)

Synonyms Coccus perforatum, Coccus tessellatus, Eucalymnatus perforatum, Eucalymnatus subtessellatum, Eucalymnatus tesselatus, Eucalymnatus tessellates, Eucalymnatus tessellatus swainsonae, Lecanium perforatum, Lecanium subtessellatum, Lecanium tesselatum, Lecanium tesselatum subsp. obsoletum, Lecanium tessellatum perforatum, Lecanium tessellatum subsp. obsoletum, Lecanium tessellatum subsp. swainsonae, Lecanium tessellatus

Other names and names in other languages (12)
  • Tessellated scaleEnglish
  • Tessellated soft scaleEnglish
  • الحشرة القشرية الفسيفاءيةArabic
  • escama blanda teseladaSpanish
  • cochenille plate des serresFrench
  • キッコウカタカイガラムシJapanese
  • 남생이깍지벌레Korean
  • cochonilha-reticulataPortuguese
  • Подушечница сетчатаяRussian
  • 紅褐網介殼蟲Chinese
  • カメノコウカタカイガラムシJapanese
  • сетчатая ложнощитовкаRussian

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of the palm scale

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

Where does the palm scale live?

Catalogue of Life checklists list the palm scale for 64 countries, including Algeria, Australia, Bermuda, Bulgaria and Cape Verde. Checklist coverage is uneven, so the true range may be wider.

Is the palm scale an invasive species?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the palm scale as introduced in 6 countries, including Australia, Denmark, France, Japan and Poland, but does not flag it as invasive in any of them.

What kind of animal is the palm scale?

The palm scale (Eucalymnatus tessellatus) belongs to the family Coccidae in the order Hemiptera.

Sources and how to cite this page

Data as of 2026-11-13. How this page is put together.

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APA

CreatureData. (2026). Palm scale (Eucalymnatus tessellatus). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/palm-scale

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“Palm scale (Eucalymnatus tessellatus).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/palm-scale.

BibTeX
@misc{palm_scale_2026,
  title = {Palm scale (Eucalymnatus tessellatus)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/palm-scale},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-13}
}