Parnassiana


Parnassiana is a genus of bush crickets in the tribe Platycleidini and genus group Platycleis, erected by F. E. Zeuner in 1941. Species have been called "Greek bush-crickets" and members of this genus have been recorded mostly from that country.

Habitat and life cycle

Grecian species such as P. chelmos and P. fusca often live in upland pastures and with thorny, low-growing shrubs such as Astragalus spp., often perched in these, rather than near the ground. Adults can typically be found between July and October. Several species are locally endemic: for example, P. fusca is only found on Mount Taygetos in the southern Peloponnese.

Species

The Orthoptera Species File lists the following:
  1. Parnassiana chelmos
  2. Parnassiana coracis
  3. Parnassiana dirphys
  4. Parnassiana fusca
  5. Parnassiana gionica
  6. Parnassiana menalon
  7. Parnassiana nigromarginata
  8. Parnassiana panaetolikon
  9. Parnassiana parnassica - type species
  10. Parnassiana parnon
  11. Parnassiana tenuis
  12. Parnassiana tymphiensis
  13. ''Parnassiana tymphrestos''