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Papaya mealybug

Paracoccus marginatus Williams & Granara de Willink, 1992

Status not recordedinsects

The papaya mealybug (Paracoccus marginatus) is a species in the family Pseudococcidae, order Hemiptera. Source checklists list it for 58 countries, including Bahamas, Bangladesh and Barbados.

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Quick facts about the papaya 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
58 countriessrc for Countries on record

Where does the papaya 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 papaya mealybug is listed for 58 countries.

TanzaniaIndonesiaKenyaSudanHaitiDominican Rep.BahamasMexicoCosta RicaGuatemalaBelizeGuyanaPuerto RicoCubaSenegalMauritaniaBeninNigeriaCameroonTogoGhanaCôte d'IvoireLiberiaSierra LeoneBurkina FasoGabonMalawiMozambiqueIsraelOmanCambodiaThailandVietnamIndiaBangladeshPakistanSri LankaTaiwanPhilippinesMalaysiaJapanUgandaS. Sudan
  • Listed
  • Not listed
small islands are not drawn at this scale

The same countries as a list

  1. Bahamas
  2. Bangladesh
  3. Barbados
  4. Belize
  5. Benin
  6. Burkina Faso
  7. Cambodia
  8. Cameroon
  9. Cayman Islands
  10. Costa Rica
  11. Côte d’Ivoire
  12. Cuba
  13. Dominican Republic
  14. French Guiana
  15. Gabon
  16. Ghana
  17. Grenada
  18. Guadeloupe
  19. Guam
  20. Guatemala
  21. Guyana
  22. Haiti
  23. India
  24. Indonesia
  25. Israel
  26. Japan
  27. Kenya
  28. Liberia
  29. Malawi
  30. Malaysia
  31. Maldives
  32. Martinique
  33. Mauritania
  34. Mauritius
  35. Mexico
  36. Micronesia
  37. Montserrat
  38. Mozambique
  39. Nigeria
  40. Northern Mariana Islands
Show 18 more countries
  1. Oman
  2. Pakistan
  3. Palau
  4. Philippines
  5. Puerto Rico
  6. Senegal
  7. Sierra Leone
  8. South Sudan
  9. Sri Lanka
  10. St. Lucia
  11. Sudan
  12. Taiwan
  13. Tanzania
  14. Thailand
  15. Togo
  16. U.S. Virgin Islands
  17. Uganda
  18. 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 papaya mealybug as introduced in 5 countries, and flagged as invasive in 1 of them.

  1. British Virgin Islandsinvasive
  2. Barbados
  3. Dominican Republic
  4. St. Martin
  5. 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 papaya 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 papaya mealybug classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. classInsecta
  4. orderHemiptera
  5. familyPseudococcidae
  6. genusParacoccus
  7. SpeciesParacoccus marginatus Williams & Granara de Willink, 1992

Synonyms Paracoccus marginetus

Other names and names in other languages (6)
  • cochinilla de la papayaSpanish
  • cochenille du papayerFrench
  • marginal mealybugroot
  • 木瓜秀粉介殼蟲Chinese
  • Chinche harinosa de la fruta bombaSpanish
  • La cochenille du papayerFrench

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of the papaya mealybug

Other species in the same genus Paracoccus.

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

Where does the papaya mealybug live?

Catalogue of Life checklists list the papaya mealybug for 58 countries, including Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belize and Benin. Checklist coverage is uneven, so the true range may be wider.

Is the papaya mealybug an invasive species?

In some places. The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species flags the papaya mealybug as invasive in 1 country: British Virgin Islands. It lists it as introduced in 5 in all.

What kind of animal is the papaya mealybug?

The papaya mealybug (Paracoccus marginatus) 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). Papaya mealybug (Paracoccus marginatus). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/paracoccus-marginatus

MLA

“Papaya mealybug (Paracoccus marginatus).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/paracoccus-marginatus.

BibTeX
@misc{paracoccus_marginatus_2026,
  title = {Papaya mealybug (Paracoccus marginatus)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/paracoccus-marginatus},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-14}
}