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Rose Icerya

Crypticerya rosae (Riley & Howard, 1890)

Status not recordedinsects

The rose icerya (Crypticerya rosae) is a species in the family Monophlebidae, order Hemiptera. Source checklists list it for 3 countries: Guadeloupe, Haiti and Puerto Rico.

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Quick facts about the rose icerya

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
3 countriessrc for Countries on record

Where does the rose icerya 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 rose icerya is listed for 3 countries.

HaitiPuerto Rico
  • Listed
  • Not listed
small islands are not drawn at this scale

The same countries as a list

  1. Guadeloupe
  2. Haiti
  3. Puerto Rico

Why a country list is not a range map

Is the rose icerya 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 rose icerya classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. classInsecta
  4. orderHemiptera
  5. familyMonophlebidae
  6. genusCrypticerya
  7. SpeciesCrypticerya rosae (Riley & Howard, 1890)

Synonyms Icerya rosae, Palaeococcus rosae

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of the rose icerya

Other species in the same genus Crypticerya.

Giant scale

Crypticerya genistae

MonophlebidaeNo free photo yet

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

Where does the rose icerya live?

Catalogue of Life checklists list the rose icerya for 3 countries: Guadeloupe, Haiti and Puerto Rico. Checklist coverage is uneven, so the true range may be wider.

What kind of animal is the rose icerya?

The rose icerya (Crypticerya rosae) belongs to the family Monophlebidae 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). Rose Icerya (Crypticerya rosae). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/rose-icerya

MLA

“Rose Icerya (Crypticerya rosae).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/rose-icerya.

BibTeX
@misc{rose_icerya_2026,
  title = {Rose Icerya (Crypticerya rosae)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/rose-icerya},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-14}
}