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Kaliwatan sa insekto ang Melanaspis tenax.^[1] Una ning gihulagway ni Mckenzie ni adtong 1944.^[2] Ang Melanaspis tenax sakop sa kahenera nga Melanaspis, ug kabanay nga Diaspididae.^[1][3]

Kini nga matang hayop na sabwag sa:

• Jamaica
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Panama Canal Zone
• Puerto Rico
• Vieques Island
• Trinidad ug Tobago
• Venezuela
• Mehiko
• Tinípong Bángsà
• Ondoras
• Guatemala
• Ecuador
• Dominikanhong Republika
• Cuba
• Costa Rica
• Barbados
• Colombia

Walay nalista nga matang nga sama niini.^[1]

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Roskov Y., Kunze T., Orrell T., Abucay L., Paglinawan L., Culham A., Bailly N., Kirk P., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Decock W., De Wever A., Didžiulis V. (ed) (2019). "Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2019 Annual Checklist". Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. ISSN 2405-884X. TaxonID: 335884. Retrieved 2019-11-11. {{cite web}}: |author= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
2. ↑ McKenzie, H.L. (1944) Miscellaneous diaspid scale studies (Homoptera; Coccoidea; Diaspididae). , Bulletin of the California Department of Agriculture
3. ↑ Ben-Dov Y. & Miller D.R. (2019). ScaleNet: Systematic Database of the Scale Insects of the World (version Dec 2004). In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 2019 Annual Checklist (Roskov Y., Ower G., Orrell T., Nicolson D., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., DeWalt R.E., Decock W., Nieukerken E. van, Zarucchi J., Penev L., eds.). Digital resource at www.catalogueoflife.org/annual-checklist/2019. Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. ISSN 2405-884X.