Green Citrus Locust

Description:

Acrididae, Catantopinae; Melicodes sp. This specimen was exactly 9 cm. long from its head (not including the antennae) to its wing tips.

Habitat:

This Green Citrus Locust was sitting on a young Lime Tree (Citrus aurantifolia), locally known as a Dayap Tree, in our backyard. My wife spotted it and came into the back porch where I was enjoying a coffee and suggested I might want to take a picture of a big Grasshopper and that is exactly what I did.

Notes:

Distribution - http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/Common... Pictures of Genus Melicodes - https://www.gbif.org/species/1713764 Identification of the Lime Tree - http://www.stuartxchange.org/Dayap