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Vanilla scale

Conchaspis angraeci Cockerell, 1893

Status not recordedinsects

The vanilla scale (Conchaspis angraeci) is a species in the family Conchaspididae, order Hemiptera. Source checklists list it for 51 countries, including Angola, Aruba and Australia.

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Quick facts about the vanilla 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
51 countriessrc for Countries on record

Where does the vanilla 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 vanilla scale is listed for 51 countries.

FijiIndonesiaDem. Rep. CongoHaitiDominican Rep.BahamasMexicoBrazilPeruColombiaPanamaCosta RicaNicaraguaHondurasEl SalvadorGuatemalaBelizeVenezuelaGuyanaSurinameEcuadorPuerto RicoJamaicaCubaSenegalNigerNigeriaCameroonCôte d'IvoireCongoAngolaMadagascarThailandIndiaNetherlandsNew CaledoniaAustraliaPhilippinesMalaysiaTrinidad and Tobago
  • Listed
  • Not listed
small islands are not drawn at this scale

The same countries as a list

  1. Angola
  2. Aruba
  3. Australia
  4. Bahamas
  5. Barbados
  6. Belize
  7. Bermuda
  8. Brazil
  9. Cameroon
  10. Cayman Islands
  11. Colombia
  12. Comoros
  13. Congo - Brazzaville
  14. Congo - Kinshasa
  15. Costa Rica
  16. Côte d’Ivoire
  17. Cuba
  18. Dominican Republic
  19. Ecuador
  20. El Salvador
  21. Fiji
  22. French Polynesia
  23. Guadeloupe
  24. Guatemala
  25. Guyana
  26. Haiti
  27. Honduras
  28. India
  29. Indonesia
  30. Jamaica
  31. Madagascar
  32. Malaysia
  33. Mexico
  34. Netherlands
  35. New Caledonia
  36. Nicaragua
  37. Niger
  38. Nigeria
  39. Panama
  40. Peru
Show 11 more countries
  1. Philippines
  2. Puerto Rico
  3. Senegal
  4. Seychelles
  5. Singapore
  6. Suriname
  7. Thailand
  8. Trinidad & Tobago
  9. Tuvalu
  10. U.S. Virgin Islands
  11. Venezuela

Why a country list is not a range map

Where has it been introduced?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the vanilla scale as introduced in 3 countries.

  1. Australia
  2. Ecuador
  3. 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 vanilla 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 vanilla scale classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. classInsecta
  4. orderHemiptera
  5. familyConchaspididae
  6. genusConchaspis
  7. SpeciesConchaspis angraeci Cockerell, 1893

Synonyms Conchanspis angraeci, Conchaspis angraeci hibisci, Conchaspis angreci, Conchaspis baiensis, Conchasuis angraeci, Pseudinglisia rodrigueziae

Other names and names in other languages (3)
  • Angraecum scaleEnglish
  • escama de las orquídeasSpanish
  • cochenille de la vanillaFrench

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of the vanilla scale

Other species in the same genus Conchaspis.

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

Where does the vanilla scale live?

Catalogue of Life checklists list the vanilla scale for 51 countries, including Angola, Aruba, Australia, Bahamas and Barbados. Checklist coverage is uneven, so the true range may be wider.

Is the vanilla scale an invasive species?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the vanilla scale as introduced in 3 countries: Australia, Ecuador and United States, but does not flag it as invasive in any of them.

What kind of animal is the vanilla scale?

The vanilla scale (Conchaspis angraeci) belongs to the family Conchaspididae 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). Vanilla scale (Conchaspis angraeci). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/vanilla-scale

MLA

“Vanilla scale (Conchaspis angraeci).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/vanilla-scale.

BibTeX
@misc{vanilla_scale_2026,
  title = {Vanilla scale (Conchaspis angraeci)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/vanilla-scale},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-14}
}