Kaliwatan sa insekto ang Melanoliarus vicarius.^[1] Una ning gihulagway ni Walker ni adtong 1851.^[2] Ang Melanoliarus vicarius sakop sa kahenera nga Melanoliarus, ug kabanay nga Cixiidae.^[1][3]

Kini nga matang hayop na sabwag sa:

• Florida
• Colorado (estado)
• Maryland (estado)
• Texas
• South Carolina
• Georgia (pagklaro)
• Mississippi (estado)
• North Carolina
• Illinois
• Alabama
• Aleutian Islands
• Arizona (estado)
• Arkansas
• Alaska
• California
• Connecticut
• Delaware (estado)
• Idaho
• Indiana (estado)
• Iowa
• Kansas
• Kentucky
• Louisiana (estado)
• Maine (estado)
• Massachusetts
• Michigan
• Minnesota
• Montana (estado)
• Missouri (estado)
• North Dakota
• Nebraska
• Nevada (estado)
• New Hampshire
• New Jersey
• New Mexico
• New York (estado)
• Ohio (estado)
• Oklahoma
• Oregon
• Pennsylvania
• Rhode Island
• South Dakota
• Tennessee
• Hunan Sheng

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: 53427451. Retrieved 2019-11-11. {{cite web}}: |author= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
2. ↑ Walker F. (1851) List of the specimens of Homopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum , 2: 261-636.
3. ↑ Bourgoin T. (2019). FLOW: Fulgoromorpha Lists On the WEB (version Feb 2019). 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.