Pineapple 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

113 countriessrc for Countries on record

The pineapple mealybug is listed for 113 countries.

The same countries as a list

1. American Samoa
2. Angola
3. Bahamas
4. Bangladesh
5. Barbados
6. Belize
7. Benin
8. Bermuda
9. Bolivia
10. Brazil
11. Brunei
12. Burkina Faso
13. Burundi
14. Cambodia
15. Cameroon
16. Cape Verde
17. Cayman Islands
18. Chad
19. Chile
20. China
21. Cocos (Keeling) Islands
22. Colombia
23. Congo - Brazzaville
24. Congo - Kinshasa
25. Cook Islands
26. Costa Rica
27. Côte d’Ivoire
28. Cuba
29. Curaçao
30. Dominica
31. Dominican Republic
32. Ecuador
33. Egypt
34. El Salvador
35. Fiji
36. French Guiana
37. French Polynesia
38. Ghana
39. Greece
40. Grenada

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.

1. kingdomAnimalia
2. phylumArthropoda
3. classInsecta
4. orderHemiptera
5. familyPseudococcidae
6. genusDysmicoccus
7. SpeciesDysmicoccus brevipes (Cockerell, 1893)

Synonyms Dactylopius ananassae, Dactylopius brevipes, Dysmicoccus brevipens, Dysmioccus brevipes, Pseudococcus brevipes, Pseudococcus cannae, Pseudococcus defluiteri, Pseudococcus longirostralis, Pseudococcus missionum, Pseudococcus palauensis, Pseudococcus pseudobrevipes, ysmicoccus brevipes

Catalogue of Life

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@misc{pineapple_mealybug_2026,
  title = {Pineapple mealybug (Dysmicoccus brevipes)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/pineapple-mealybug},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-11}
}