Melanaspis

Melanaspis is a genus of armoured scales in the family Diaspididae. There are more than 60 described species in Melanaspis.

==Species== These 64 species belong to the genus Melanaspis: Melanaspis araucariae Lepage, 1942 (Brazil) Melanaspis aristotelesi Lepage & Giannotti, 1944 (Brazil) Melanaspis arnaldoi (Costa Lima, 1924) (Brazil) Melanaspis artemisiae Mamet, 1959 (Madagascar) Melanaspis arundinariae Deitz & Davidson, 1986 (United States) Melanaspis bolivari Balachowsky, 1959 (Colombia) Melanaspis bondari Lepage & Giannotti, 1943 (Brazil) Melanaspis bromiliae (Leonardi, 1899) (ananas scale) Melanaspis calura (Cockerell, 1898) (Central and South America, Philippines) Melanaspis campylanthi (Lindinger, 1911) (Canary Islands) Melanaspis casuarinae Mamet, 1954 (Madagascar) Melanaspis chrysobalani (Leonardi, 1914) (Africa) Melanaspis coccolobae Ferris, 1943 (the Americas) Melanaspis corticosa (Brain, 1919) (South African Obscure Scale) (Mozambique, Guinea, South Africa, Zimbabwe) Melanaspis cubensis Deitz & Davidson, 1986 (Cuba) Melanaspis deklei Deitz & Davidson, 1986 (United States, Mexico) Melanaspis delicata Ferris, 1941 (United States) Melanaspis deliquescens Ferris, 1941 (Mexico, United States) Melanaspis eglandulosa (Lindinger in: Brick, 1909) (Panama, Guatemala) Melanaspis elaeagni McKenzie, 1957 (Black elaegnus scale) (Central and North America) Melanaspis enceliae (Ferris, 1921) (Mexico) Melanaspis figueiredoi Lepage, 1942 (Brazil) Melanaspis frankiniae Ferris, 1941 (Mexico) Melanaspis greeni (Leonardi, 1914) (Guinea) Melanaspis indurata (Ferris, 1921) (Mexico) Melanaspis inopinata (Leonardi, 1913) (Europe, western Asia) Melanaspis jamaicensis Davidson, 1970 (United States) Melanaspis latipyga Ferris, 1941 (Central and North America) Melanaspis leivasi (Costa Lima, 1924) (Central and South America) Melanaspis lilacina (Cockerell, 1898) (dark oak scale) (United States, Mexico) Melanaspis lilloi Schneider, Claps, Wei, Normark & Normark, 2020 Melanaspis longula Ferris, 1941 (Panama, Mexico) Melanaspis louristanus Balachowsky & Kaussari, 1953 (Iran) Melanaspis madagascariensis Mamet, 1951 (Madagascar, Angola) Melanaspis marlatti (Parrott, 1899) (United States, Japan) Melanaspis martinsi Lepage, 1942 (Brazil) Melanaspis mimosae (Comstock, 1883) (Mimosa scale) (United States, Mexico) Melanaspis monotes (Hall, 1929) (Zimbabwe) Melanaspis nigropunctata (Cockerell, 1896) (Central and North America, Caribbean) Melanaspis nothofagi Hardy & Williams, 2018 Melanaspis obscura (Comstock, 1881) (obscure scale) (North America, Japan) Melanaspis odontoglossi (Cockerell, 1893) (the Americas) Melanaspis pedina Munting, 1969 (South Africa, Namibia) Melanaspis phenax (Cockerell, 1901) (Zimbabwe, Guinea, South Africa) Melanaspis philippiae Mamet, 1959 (Madagascar) Melanaspis pinicola Deitz & Davidson, 1986 (Mexico, Guatemala) Melanaspis pistaciae Hosseininaveh & Kaydan Melanaspis ponderosa Ferris, 1941 (Panama, Mexico, Colombia) Melanaspis pseudoponderosa Deitz & Davidson, 1986 (United States) Melanaspis reticulata Ferris, 1943 (Mexico) Melanaspis rotunda Ferris, 1943 (Mexico) Melanaspis saccharicola (Costa Lima, 1934) (Brazil) Melanaspis sacculata Ferris, 1943 (Mexico) Melanaspis sansevii Mamet, 1959 (Madagascar) Melanaspis santensis Lepage, 1942 (Brazil) Melanaspis smilacis (Comstock, 1883) (Smilax scale) Melanaspis squamea Ferris, 1943 (Panama, Guatemala, Mexico) Melanaspis sulcata Ferris, 1943 Melanaspis targionoides Schneider, Claps, Wei, Normark & Normark, 2020 Melanaspis tenax McKenzie, 1944 (the Americas) Melanaspis tenebricosa (Comstock, 1881) (gloomy scale) (Panama, United States, Mexico) Melanaspis tricuspis Ferris, 1941 (Mexico) Melanaspis vilardeboi Balachowsky, 1953 (Guinea) Melanaspis williamsi De Lotto, 1957 (Kenya)