- Animals
- ›Arthropods
- ›Hexapods
- ›Insects
- ›Winged and Once-winged Insects
- ›Grasshoppers, Crickets, and Katydids
- ›Grasshoppers, Locusts, and Allies
- ›Grasshoppers
- ›Short-horned Grasshoppers and Locusts
- ›Short-horned Grasshoppers
- ›Copiocerinae
- ›Copiocerini
- ›Monachidium
Monachidium lunum
Monachidium is a genus of grasshopper belonging to the family Acrididae, containing a single species, the fairly large and aposematically colored Monachidium lunum from tropical South America.
From the article Monachidium on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
Monachidium lunum is native to the eastern and central Amazon in Brazil and the Guianas. It is a fairly large species, typically around 6 cm (2.4 in) long. These grasshoppers have a bright and contrasting aposematic color pattern. The prothorax is bulbous and high. The head is black and the prothorax is orange or black. The elytra are blackish opaque, with transversal yellow bands. The wings are very dark blue, sometimes metallic violet. The abdomen is red and black. Antennae are yellow. Legs and tarsi are red.
== References ==
Listen
Looking for field recordings…
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
—
geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Monachidium lunum in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 569246.