{{Short description|Genus of true bugs}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Melanaspis tenebricosa - inat 167116957.jpg | image_caption = ''Melanaspis tenebricosa'', New York | taxon = Melanaspis | authority = Cockerell, 1897 }}
'''''Melanaspis''''' is a genus of armoured scales in the family Diaspididae. There are more than 60 described species in ''Melanaspis''.<ref name=Normark2019/><ref name=GarcíaMorales/><ref name=gbif/><ref name=catlife/>
==Species== These 64 species belong to the genus ''Melanaspis'':<ref name=GarcíaMorales/> {{Div col|colwidth=35em}} * ''Melanaspis araucariae'' <small>Lepage, 1942</small> (Brazil) * ''Melanaspis aristotelesi'' <small>Lepage & Giannotti, 1944</small> (Brazil) * ''Melanaspis arnaldoi'' <small>(Costa Lima, 1924)</small> (Brazil) * ''Melanaspis artemisiae'' <small>Mamet, 1959</small> (Madagascar) * ''Melanaspis arundinariae'' <small>Deitz & Davidson, 1986</small> (United States) * ''Melanaspis bolivari'' <small>Balachowsky, 1959</small> (Colombia) * ''Melanaspis bondari'' <small>Lepage & Giannotti, 1943</small> (Brazil) * ''Melanaspis bromiliae'' <small>(Leonardi, 1899)</small> (ananas scale) * ''Melanaspis calura'' <small>(Cockerell, 1898)</small> (Central and South America, Philippines) * ''Melanaspis campylanthi'' <small>(Lindinger, 1911)</small> (Canary Islands) * ''Melanaspis casuarinae'' <small>Mamet, 1954</small> (Madagascar) * ''Melanaspis chrysobalani'' <small>(Leonardi, 1914)</small> (Africa) * ''Melanaspis coccolobae'' <small>Ferris, 1943</small> (the Americas) * ''Melanaspis corticosa'' <small>(Brain, 1919)</small> (South African Obscure Scale) (Mozambique, Guinea, South Africa, Zimbabwe) * ''Melanaspis cubensis'' <small>Deitz & Davidson, 1986</small> (Cuba) * ''Melanaspis deklei'' <small>Deitz & Davidson, 1986</small> (United States, Mexico) * ''Melanaspis delicata'' <small>Ferris, 1941</small> (United States) * ''Melanaspis deliquescens'' <small>Ferris, 1941</small> (Mexico, United States) * ''Melanaspis eglandulosa'' <small>(Lindinger in: Brick, 1909)</small> (Panama, Guatemala) * ''Melanaspis elaeagni'' <small>McKenzie, 1957</small> (Black elaegnus scale) (Central and North America) * ''Melanaspis enceliae'' <small>(Ferris, 1921)</small> (Mexico) * ''Melanaspis figueiredoi'' <small>Lepage, 1942</small> (Brazil) * ''Melanaspis frankiniae'' <small>Ferris, 1941</small> (Mexico) * ''Melanaspis greeni'' <small>(Leonardi, 1914)</small> (Guinea) * ''Melanaspis indurata'' <small>(Ferris, 1921)</small> (Mexico) * ''Melanaspis inopinata'' <small>(Leonardi, 1913)</small> (Europe, western Asia) * ''Melanaspis jamaicensis'' <small>Davidson, 1970</small> (United States) * ''Melanaspis latipyga'' <small>Ferris, 1941</small> (Central and North America) * ''Melanaspis leivasi'' <small>(Costa Lima, 1924)</small> (Central and South America) * ''Melanaspis lilacina'' <small>(Cockerell, 1898)</small> (dark oak scale) (United States, Mexico) * ''Melanaspis lilloi'' <small>Schneider, Claps, Wei, Normark & Normark, 2020</small> * ''Melanaspis longula'' <small>Ferris, 1941</small> (Panama, Mexico) * ''Melanaspis louristanus'' <small>Balachowsky & Kaussari, 1953</small> (Iran) * ''Melanaspis madagascariensis'' <small>Mamet, 1951</small> (Madagascar, Angola) * ''Melanaspis marlatti'' <small>(Parrott, 1899)</small> (United States, Japan) * ''Melanaspis martinsi'' <small>Lepage, 1942</small> (Brazil) * ''Melanaspis mimosae'' <small>(Comstock, 1883)</small> (Mimosa scale) (United States, Mexico) * ''Melanaspis monotes'' <small>(Hall, 1929)</small> (Zimbabwe) * ''Melanaspis nigropunctata'' <small>(Cockerell, 1896)</small> (Central and North America, Caribbean) * ''Melanaspis nothofagi'' <small>Hardy & Williams, 2018</small> * ''Melanaspis obscura'' <small>(Comstock, 1881)</small> (obscure scale) (North America, Japan) * ''Melanaspis odontoglossi'' <small>(Cockerell, 1893)</small> (the Americas) * ''Melanaspis pedina'' <small>Munting, 1969</small> (South Africa, Namibia) * ''Melanaspis phenax'' <small>(Cockerell, 1901)</small> (Zimbabwe, Guinea, South Africa) * ''Melanaspis philippiae'' <small>Mamet, 1959</small> (Madagascar) * ''Melanaspis pinicola'' <small>Deitz & Davidson, 1986</small> (Mexico, Guatemala) * ''Melanaspis pistaciae'' <small>Hosseininaveh & Kaydan</small> * ''Melanaspis ponderosa'' <small>Ferris, 1941</small> (Panama, Mexico, Colombia) * ''Melanaspis pseudoponderosa'' <small>Deitz & Davidson, 1986</small> (United States) * ''Melanaspis reticulata'' <small>Ferris, 1943</small> (Mexico) * ''Melanaspis rotunda'' <small>Ferris, 1943</small> (Mexico) * ''Melanaspis saccharicola'' <small>(Costa Lima, 1934)</small> (Brazil) * ''Melanaspis sacculata'' <small>Ferris, 1943</small> (Mexico) * ''Melanaspis sansevii'' <small>Mamet, 1959</small> (Madagascar) * ''Melanaspis santensis'' <small>Lepage, 1942</small> (Brazil) * ''Melanaspis smilacis'' <small>(Comstock, 1883)</small> (Smilax scale) * ''Melanaspis squamea'' <small>Ferris, 1943</small> (Panama, Guatemala, Mexico) * ''Melanaspis sulcata'' <small>Ferris, 1943</small> * ''Melanaspis targionoides'' <small>Schneider, Claps, Wei, Normark & Normark, 2020</small> * ''Melanaspis tenax'' <small>McKenzie, 1944</small> (the Americas) * ''Melanaspis tenebricosa'' <small>(Comstock, 1881)</small> (gloomy scale) (Panama, United States, Mexico) * ''Melanaspis tricuspis'' <small>Ferris, 1941</small> (Mexico) * ''Melanaspis vilardeboi'' <small>Balachowsky, 1953</small> (Guinea) * ''Melanaspis williamsi'' <small>De Lotto, 1957</small> (Kenya) {{Div col end}}
==References== <references>
<ref name=GarcíaMorales> {{Cite journal | title = ScaleNet: A literature-based model of scale insect biology and systematics | last1 = García Morales | first1 = M.| last2 = Denno | first2 = B. D.| last3 = Miller | first3 = D. R.| last4 = Miller | first4 = G. L. | last5 = Ben-Dov | first5 = Y| last6 = Hardy | first6 = N. B. | journal = Database | date = 2016 | display-authors = 4 | doi = 10.1093/database/bav118| doi-access = free | pmid = 26861659 | pmc = 4747323 | url = http://scalenet.info/| access-date = 2024-10-19 }}</ref>
<ref name=Normark2019> {{Cite journal | title = Phylogeny and classification of armored scale insects (Hemiptera:Coccomorpha: Diaspididae) | year = 2019 | last1 = Normark | first1 = Benjamin B.| last2 = Okusu | first2 = Akiko| last3 = Morse | first3 = Geoffrey E.| last4 = Peterson | first4 = Daniel A. | last5 = Itioka | first5 = Takao| last6 = Schneider | first6 = Scott A. | display-authors = 4 | journal = Zootaxa| volume = 4616| issue = 1 | pages=1–98 | doi = 10.11646/zootaxa.4616.1.1| doi-access = free | pmid = 31716328 | url = https://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.4616.1.1| access-date = 2025-01-03 | url-access = subscription}}</ref>
<ref name=gbif> {{Cite web| title=GBIF, ''Melanaspis'' | url=https://www.gbif.org/species/2083167 | access-date=2024-10-18 }}</ref>
<ref name=catlife> {{Cite web| title=Catalogue of Life, ''Melanaspis'' Cockerell, 1897 | url=https://www.catalogueoflife.org/data/taxon/CBGY3 | access-date=2024-10-18 }}</ref>
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==External links== {{refbegin}} * {{inaturalist taxon|48092}} {{refend}}
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Category:Diaspididae