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Icerya seychellarum  (Westwood, 1855)
Taxonomic Serial No.: 1256073

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Species  
  Synonym(s): Dorthesia seychellarum Westwood, 1855
  
    Orthezia seychellarum (Westwood, 1855)
  
    Coccus sacchari Guérin-Méneville, 1867
  
    Icerya sacchari (Guérin-Méneville, 1867)
  
    Icerya candida Cockerell, 1905
  
    Icerya okadae Kuwana, 1907
  
    Icerya seychellarum cristata Newstead, 1908
  
  Common Name(s): common white mealybug [English]
  
    seychellarum mealybug [English]
  
    Cochenille farineuse des Seychelles [French]
  
    cochinilla de las Seychelles [Spanish]
  
    ki-iro-watafuki-kaigaramushi
 
    Okada cottony-cushion scale [English]
  
    Seychelles fluted scale [English]
  
    silvery cushion scale [English]
  
    yellow cottony cushion scale [English]
  
       
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  Current Standing: valid  
       
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  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  – Animal, animaux, animals  
    SubkingdomBilateria  – triploblasts  
       InfrakingdomProtostomia   
          SuperphylumEcdysozoa   
             PhylumArthropoda  – Artrópode, arthropodes, arthropods  
                SubphylumHexapoda  – hexapods  
                   ClassInsecta  – insects, hexapoda, inseto, insectes  
                      SubclassPterygota  – insects ailés, winged insects  
                         InfraclassNeoptera  – modern, wing-folding insects  
                            SuperorderAcercaria   
                               OrderHemiptera Linnaeus, 1758 – true bugs, hemipterans  
                                  SuborderSternorrhyncha   
                                     SuperfamilyCoccoidea Fallén, 1814 – scales, mealybugs, coccids  
                                        FamilyMonophlebidae Signoret, 1875  
                                           GenusIcerya Signoret, 1876 – cottony cushion scales  
                                              SpeciesIcerya seychellarum (Westwood, 1855) – common white mealybug, seychellarum mealybug, Cochenille farineuse des Seychelles, cochinilla de las Seychelles, ki-iro-watafuki-kaigaramushi, Okada cottony-cushion scale, Seychelles fluted scale, silvery cushion scale, yellow cottony cushion scale  
       

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  Source: ScaleNet, 2/2025, Database (version undefined)  
  Acquired: 2025   
  Notes: García Morales, M., B. D. Denno, D. R. Miller, G. L. Miller, Y. Ben-Dov, and N. B. Hardy. 2016. ScaleNet: A literature-based model of scale insect biology and systematics. Database. doi: 10.1093/database/bav118. https://scalenet.info   
  Reference for: Icerya seychellarum, common white mealybug [English], Okada cottony-cushion scale [English], seychellarum mealybug [English], Seychelles fluted scale [English], silvery cushion scale [English], yellow cottony cushion scale [English], Cochenille farineuse des Seychelles [French], ki-iro-watafuki-kaigaramushi, cochinilla de las Seychelles [Spanish]   
       
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 Geographic Information
       
  Geographic Division: Africa  
    Australia  
    Caribbean  
    Europe & Northern Asia (excluding China)  
    Oceania  
    South America  
    Southern Asia  
       
  Jurisdiction/Origin: Central Pacific Territories, Native  
 

 

    

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