Yersin's Stone Grasshopper - Orchamus yersini (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1882) - Cyprus

Family Pamphagidae

Orchamus yersini inhabits maquis, open woodlands and othe bushy, dry and warm habitats.

Life cycle:

In Samos, I met adults in May 2014. They can be observed only singly in low densities and usually rest on twigs of bushes or truncs. I recorded a female crossing a road.

Orchamus yersini is recorded in a few places in Greece (e.g. Samos, Rhodes, W-Greece), Cyprus  and parts of W-Asia (e.g. Syria). Especially because of closely related taxa the knowledge of its distribution is still incomplete.

Photos Kourio 18/12/2015 by Michael Hadjiconstantis

See also - Λίστα με τα Ορθόπτερα της Κύπρου - ;LIst of Orthoptera of Cyprus 

Photos Chaleuka 27/4/2016 by George Konstantinou