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Screw pine scale

Pinnaspis strachani (Cooley, 1899)

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The screw pine scale (Pinnaspis strachani) is a species in the family Diaspididae, order Hemiptera. Source checklists list it for 99 countries, including Angola, Bahamas and Barbados.

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Quick facts about the screw pine 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
99 countriessrc for Countries on record

Where does the screw pine 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 screw pine scale is listed for 99 countries.

FijiTanzaniaPapua New GuineaChileDem. Rep. CongoSomaliaKenyaSudanDominican Rep.BahamasSouth AfricaBoliviaPeruColombiaPanamaCosta RicaHondurasEl SalvadorVenezuelaGuyanaSurinameFranceEcuadorPuerto RicoJamaicaCubaSenegalMaliMauritaniaBeninNigeriaCameroonTogoGhanaCôte d'IvoireGuineaLiberiaSierra LeoneMozambiqueAngolaMadagascarGambiaOmanVanuatuCambodiaThailandVietnamSouth KoreaIndiaNepalPakistanIranPolandHungaryGermanyBulgariaCroatiaNetherlandsNew CaledoniaSolomon Is.Sri LankaTaiwanItalyGeorgiaMalaysiaSloveniaEritreaJapanSaudi ArabiaEgyptUganda
  • Listed
  • Not listed
small islands are not drawn at this scale

The same countries as a list

  1. Angola
  2. Bahamas
  3. Barbados
  4. Benin
  5. Bermuda
  6. Bolivia
  7. Bulgaria
  8. Cambodia
  9. Cameroon
  10. Cape Verde
  11. Cayman Islands
  12. Chile
  13. Christmas Island
  14. Colombia
  15. Comoros
  16. Congo - Kinshasa
  17. Cook Islands
  18. Costa Rica
  19. Côte d’Ivoire
  20. Croatia
  21. Cuba
  22. Curaçao
  23. Dominica
  24. Dominican Republic
  25. Ecuador
  26. Egypt
  27. El Salvador
  28. Eritrea
  29. Fiji
  30. France
  31. French Guiana
  32. Gambia
  33. Georgia
  34. Germany
  35. Ghana
  36. Grenada
  37. Guadeloupe
  38. Guam
  39. Guinea
  40. Guyana
Show 59 more countries
  1. Honduras
  2. Hong Kong SAR China
  3. Hungary
  4. India
  5. Iran
  6. Italy
  7. Jamaica
  8. Japan
  9. Kenya
  10. Kiribati
  11. Liberia
  12. Madagascar
  13. Malaysia
  14. Mali
  15. Marshall Islands
  16. Mauritania
  17. Mauritius
  18. Mozambique
  19. Nepal
  20. Netherlands
  21. New Caledonia
  22. Nigeria
  23. Niue
  24. Oman
  25. Pakistan
  26. Palau
  27. Panama
  28. Papua New Guinea
  29. Peru
  30. Poland
  31. Puerto Rico
  32. Samoa
  33. Saudi Arabia
  34. Senegal
  35. Seychelles
  36. Sierra Leone
  37. Singapore
  38. Slovenia
  39. Solomon Islands
  40. Somalia
  41. South Africa
  42. South Korea
  43. Sri Lanka
  44. St. Lucia
  45. St. Vincent & Grenadines
  46. Sudan
  47. Suriname
  48. Taiwan
  49. Tanzania
  50. Thailand
  51. Togo
  52. Tokelau
  53. Tonga
  54. Tuvalu
  55. U.S. Virgin Islands
  56. Uganda
  57. Vanuatu
  58. Venezuela
  59. 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 screw pine scale as introduced in 5 countries.

  1. Australia
  2. Ecuador
  3. France
  4. Poland
  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 screw pine 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 screw pine scale classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. classInsecta
  4. orderHemiptera
  5. familyDiaspididae
  6. genusPinnaspis
  7. SpeciesPinnaspis strachani (Cooley, 1899)

Synonyms Chionaspis aspidistrae subsp. gossypii, Chionaspis gossypii, Chionaspis proxima, Hemichionaspis aspidistrae gossypii, Hemichionaspis gossypii, Hemichionaspis marchali, Hemichionaspis minor strachani, Hemichionaspis proxima, Hemichionaspis strachani, Hemichionaspis townsendi, Pinaspis strachani, Pinnaspis aspidistrae gossypii, Pinnaspis gossypii, Pinnaspis marchali, Pinnaspis minor strachani, Pinnaspis proxima, Pinnaspis stracheni, Pinnaspis temporaria, Pinnaspis townsendi

Other names and names in other languages (11)
  • Cotton white scaleEnglish
  • Hibiscus snow scaleEnglish
  • Lesser snow scaleEnglish
  • Small snow scaleEnglish
  • escama nieve menorSpanish
  • kermès de StrachanFrench
  • komma-kaigaramushiJapanese
  • 고사리핀깍지벌레Korean
  • konma-kaigaramushiroot
  • 山欖並盾介殼蟲Chinese
  • guagua nevada menorSpanish

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of the screw pine scale

Other species in the same genus Pinnaspis.

Fern scale

Pinnaspis aspidistrae

DiaspididaeNo free photo yet

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

Where does the screw pine scale live?

Catalogue of Life checklists list the screw pine scale for 99 countries, including Angola, Bahamas, Barbados, Benin and Bermuda. Checklist coverage is uneven, so the true range may be wider.

Is the screw pine scale an invasive species?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the screw pine scale as introduced in 5 countries: Australia, Ecuador, France, Poland and United States, but does not flag it as invasive in any of them.

What kind of animal is the screw pine scale?

The screw pine scale (Pinnaspis strachani) belongs to the family Diaspididae 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). Screw pine scale (Pinnaspis strachani). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/screw-pine-scale

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BibTeX
@misc{screw_pine_scale_2026,
  title = {Screw pine scale (Pinnaspis strachani)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/screw-pine-scale},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-13}
}