Sotiris Alexiou recognized this type of pink-eyed cricket as significant when he first encountered it in Attiki in 2013, but he wasn’t able to identify the insect until after his visit to the chapel in 2017, he wrote in a study published Feb. 9 in the Journal of Orthoptera Research. He discovered a new species: Eupholidoptera kekrops, or the Cecrops bush-cricket.