| system | Vitae - living organisms |
| domain | Eukaryota Whittaker & Margulis, 1978 - lifeforms with nucletic cells |
| superregnum | Unikonta |
| system | Opisthokonta Cavalier-Smith, 1987 |
| kingdom | Animalia Linnaeus, 1758 - animals |
| subregnum | Eumetazoa Butschli, 1910 |
| divisio | Bilateria Hatschek, 1888 |
| subdivisio | Protostomia Grobben, 1908 - protostomes |
| phylum | Arthropoda - Arthropods |
| subphylum | Hexapoda Blainville, 1816 |
| class | Insecta - Insects |
| subclass | Pterygota |
| infraclass | Neoptera Martynov, 1923 |
| cohors | Polyneoptera |
| order | Orthoptera - grasshoppers, crickets and katydids |
| suborder | Caelifera - short-horned grasshoppers |
| superfamily | Acridoidea MacLeay, 1821 |
| family | Acrididae MacLeay, 1821 |
| subfamily | Oedipodinae Thomas, C., 1872 |
| tribus | Sphingonotini |
| genus | Sphingonotus Fieber, 1852 |
| species | Sphingonotus caerulans (Linnaeus, 1767) |
| subspecies | Sphingonotus caerulans exornatus Nedelkov, 1907 |