Poecilimon propinquus

The species was described under its present name by Carl Brunner von Wattenwyl in 1878, in his Monographie der Pheneropteriden.^[1] The type specimen is stored at the Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, with the type coming from Hymettus.^[2] P. propinquus is part of the eponymous Poecilimon propinquus group, a monophyletic clade of Poecilimon species endemic to Greece.^[3]

In his original description, von Wattenwyl noted it was found at Parnassus, Athens, and Syra.^[4] It is now understood to be distributed in much of southeastern Greece: at Kymi and Chalcis on the island of Euboea; through most of Attica, including Athens; in the northeastern Peloponnese region, around Corinth and Galatás; in inland Phthiotis and in Boeotia around Mount Cithaeron; and the islands of Makronisos, Alonnisos, and Aegina.^[1][2] The katydids can be found living on plants of the genera Daphne, Euphorbia (spurge), Platanus (plane trees), Sanguisorba (burnet), and Verbascum (mullein).^[2][5]