Zoniopoda similis

Botanical Gardens of Brasilia - DF, Brazil.

 

Zoniopoda is a genus of showy grasshoppers found in the Neotropics. Some of them are really colorful. This one is all green resembling a katydid.

 

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Arthropoda

Class: Insecta

Order: Orthoptera

Suborder: Caelifera

Superfamily: Acridoidea

Family: Romaleidae

Subfamily: Romaleinae

Tribe: Romaleini

Genus: Zoniopoda Stål, 1873

Species: Z. similis Bruner, 1906

Binomial name: Zoniopoda similis

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