# Poecilimon

Poecilimon is a genus of bush crickets in the subfamily Phaneropterinae and tribe Barbitistini. Species can be found in: central and Southeast Europe (including Italy and the Southern Alps, Southern Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria), the south of the European part of the former USSR, Asia Minor, Syria, Palestine, the Caucasus, Persia and extends in Central Asia to the Altai Mountains.

## Description

Because Poecilimon species are often brightly coloured, they may be called "bright bush crickets", although some are mostly green. As with many Orthoptera, colouration can be misleading, with variability within species. Often there is a stripe behind the eyes, dorsally dark and can extend beyond the pronotum. The fastigium is broader to narrower than the scapus. The pronotum is often shiny, smooth, and often rounded dorsally. These insects are often brachypterous and females can be apterous. In the males, the cerci are very different, but are always more or less conical in the females. The ovipositor is always straight and slightly curved upwards and serrated. The antennae are monochrome or ringed and about three times as long as the body.

## Species

The Orthoptera Species File now lists more than 140 species:

### subgenus Hamatopoecilimon Heller, 2011

* Poecilimon deplanatus Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1891
* Poecilimon hamatus Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878
* Poecilimon ikariensis Willemse, 1982
* Poecilimon klausgerhardi Fontana, 2004
* Poecilimon paros Heller & Reinhold, 1992
* Poecilimon unispinosus Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878

### subgenus Poecilimon Fischer, 1853
#### species group ampliatus Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878

* Poecilimon amissus Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878
* Poecilimon ampliatus Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878
* Poecilimon ataturki Ünal, 1999
* Poecilimon ebneri Ramme, 1933
* Poecilimon glandifer Karabag, 1950
* Poecilimon intermedius (Fieber, 1853)
* Poecilimon marmaraensis Naskrecki, 1991

#### species group armeniacus (Uvarov, 1921)

* Poecilimon armeniacus (Uvarov, 1921)
* Poecilimon eskishehirensis Ünal, 2003
* Poecilimon excisus Karabag, 1950
* Poecilimon ferwillemsei Ünal, 2010
* Poecilimon harveyi Karabag, 1964
* Poecilimon haydari Ramme, 1951
* Poecilimon inopinatus Ünal, 2010
* Poecilimon karabagi (Ramme, 1942)

#### species group bosphoricus Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878

* Poecilimon athos Tilmans, Willemse & Willemse, 1989
* Poecilimon bidens Retowski, 1889
* Poecilimon bischoffi Ramme, 1933
* Poecilimon bosphoricus Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878
* Poecilimon canakkale Kaya, Chobanov & Çiplak, 2015
* Poecilimon cervus Karabag, 1950
* Poecilimon demirsoyi Sevgili, 2001
* Poecilimon diversus Ünal, 2010
* Poecilimon djakonovi Miram, 1938
* Poecilimon geoktschajcus Stshelkanovtzev, 1910
* Poecilimon heinrichi (Ramme, 1951)
* Poecilimon istanbul Ünal, 2010
* Poecilimon kocaki Ünal, 1999
* Poecilimon miramae Ramme, 1933
* Poecilimon naskrecki Ünal, 2001
* Poecilimon oligacanthus Miram, 1938
* Poecilimon pliginskii Miram, 1929
* Poecilimon roseoviridis Chobanov & Kaya, 2012
* Poecilimon scythicus Stshelkanovtzev, 1911
* Poecilimon similis Retowski, 1889
* Poecilimon sureyanus Uvarov, 1930
* Poecilimon tauricus Retowski, 1888
* Poecilimon turciae (Ramme, 1951)
* Poecilimon turcicus Karabag, 1950
* Poecilimon warchalowskae Chobanov, Kaya & Çiplak, 2015

#### species group celebi Karabag, 1953

* Poecilimon celebi Karabag, 1953
* Poecilimon iucundus Ünal, 2003

#### species group concinnus Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878

* Poecilimon cervoides Karabag, 1964
* Poecilimon concinnus Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878
* Poecilimon hatti Ünal, 2004
* Poecilimon longicercus Ünal, 2010
* Poecilimon xenocercus Karabag, 1956

#### species group davisi Karabag, 1953

* Poecilimon davisi Karabag, 1953

#### species group elegans Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878

* Poecilimon albolineatus Ingrisch & Pavićević, 2010
* Poecilimon elegans Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878

#### species group heroicus Stshelkanovtzev, 1911

* Poecilimon bifenestratus Miram, 1929
* Poecilimon heroicus Stshelkanovtzev, 1911
* Poecilimon tricuspis Miram, 1926
* Poecilimon tschorochensis Adelung, 1907

#### species group inflatus Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1891

* Poecilimon antalyaensis (Karabag, 1975)
* Poecilimon bilgeri Karabag, 1953
* Poecilimon cretensis Werner, 1903
* Poecilimon inflatus Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1891
* Poecilimon isopterus Kaya & Chobanov, 2018
* Poecilimon martinae Heller, 2004

#### species group jonicus (Fieber, 1853)

* Poecilimon erimanthos Willemse & Heller, 1992
* Poecilimon jonicus (Fieber, 1853) – type species (as Barbitistes jonicus Fieber = P. jonicus jonicus)
* Poecilimon laevissimus (Fischer, 1853)
* Poecilimon tessellatus (Fischer, 1853)
* Poecilimon werneri Ramme, 1933

#### species group luschani Ramme, 1933

* Poecilimon egrigozi Ünal, 2005
* Poecilimon helleri Boztepe, Kaya & Çiplak, 2013
* Poecilimon ledereri Ramme, 1933
* Poecilimon luschani Ramme, 1933
* Poecilimon orbelicus Pančić, 1883
* Poecilimon tuncayi Karabag, 1953

#### species group minutus Karabag, 1975

* Poecilimon doga Ünal, 2004
* Poecilimon karakushi Ünal, 2003
* Poecilimon minutus Karabag, 1975
* Poecilimon solus Ünal, 2010

#### species group ornatus (Schmidt, 1850)

* Poecilimon affinis (Frivaldszky, 1868)
* Poecilimon artedentatus Heller, 1984
* Poecilimon gracilioides Willemse & Heller, 1992
* Poecilimon gracilis (Fieber, 1853)
* Poecilimon hoelzeli Harz, 1966
* Poecilimon jablanicensis Chobanov & Heller, 2010
* Poecilimon nobilis Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878
* Poecilimon nonveilleri Ingrisch & Pavićević, 2010
* Poecilimon obesus Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878
* Poecilimon ornatus (Schmidt, 1850)
* Poecilimon pindos Willemse, 1982
* Poecilimon pseudornatus Ingrisch & Pavićević, 2010
* Poecilimon soulion Willemse, 1987

#### species group pergamicus Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1891

* Poecilimon kutahiensis Werner, 1901
* Poecilimon pergamicus Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1891

#### species group propinquus Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878

* Poecilimon aegaeus Werner, 1932
* Poecilimon chopardi Ramme, 1933
* Poecilimon gerlindae Lehmann, Willemse & Heller, 2006
* Poecilimon mariannae Willemse & Heller, 1992
* Poecilimon propinquus Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878
* Poecilimon thessalicus Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1891
* Poecilimon veluchianus Ramme, 1933
* Poecilimon zimmeri Ramme, 1933

#### species group sanctipauli Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878

* Poecilimon lodosi Harz, 1975
* Poecilimon mytilenensis Werner, 1932
* Poecilimon pulcher Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1891
* Poecilimon sanctipauli Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878

#### species group syriacus Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1891

* Poecilimon adentatus Ramme, 1933
* Poecilimon angulatus Uvarov, 1939
* Poecilimon ege Ünal, 2005
* Poecilimon ersisi Salman, 1978
* Poecilimon izmirensis Ramme, 1933
* Poecilimon karabukensis Ünal, 2003
* Poecilimon obtusicercus Heller, Sevgili & Reinhold, 2008
* Poecilimon serratus Karabag, 1962
* Poecilimon syriacus Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1891
* Poecilimon toros Ünal, 2003

#### species group zonatus Bolívar, 1899

* Poecilimon azizsancar Sevgili, 2018
* Poecilimon ciplaki Kaya, 2018
* Poecilimon isozonatus Kaya, 2018
* Poecilimon salmani Sevgili, 2018
* Poecilimon tauricola Ramme, 1951
* Poecilimon varicornis (Haan, 1843)
* Poecilimon variicercis Miram, 1938
* Poecilimon vodnensis Karaman, 1958
* Poecilimon zonatus Bolívar, 1899

#### species group not assigned

* Poecilimon brunneri (Frivaldszky, 1868)
* Poecilimon chostae Stshelkanovtzev, 1935
* Poecilimon distinctus Stshelkanovtzev, 1910
* Poecilimon flavescens (Herrich-Schäffer, 1838)
* Poecilimon fussii Fieber, 1878
* Poecilimon guichardi Karabag, 1964
* Poecilimon hadjisarandou Werner, 1938
* Poecilimon lateralis (Fieber, 1853)
* Poecilimon macedonicus Ramme, 1926
* Poecilimon neglectus Ramme, 1931
* Poecilimon nivalis Chobanov, 2023
* Poecilimon pechevi Andreeva, 1978
* Poecilimon schmidtii (Fieber, 1853)
* Poecilimon stschelkanovzevi Tarbinsky, 1932
* Poecilimon thoracicus (Fieber, 1853)
* Poecilimon ukrainicus Bey-Bienko, 1951
* Poecilimon zwicki Ramme, 1939