This species was first described by Devillers and Devillers-Terschuren from the Aegean island of Lesbos in 2009. Its validity as a separate taxon is however questioned by some authorities who point to its extremely close similarity to O. pelnaea.
The authors do not feel sufficiently familiar with the species to offer an opinion as to its status and simply observe that it is considered endemic to Lesbos, an island noted for being host to a confusing range of O. fusca group Ophrys which over the years have almost certainly been taxonomically over divided. Space does not allow a full iteration of the arguments for and against the acceptance of this orchid as a convincing new species but would refer the reader to a paper penned by Professor Paulus and Monika Hirth in 2015 in which they consider the O. fusca group Ophrys of the eastern Aegean islands. At that time O. theohrasti was regarded as "a species yet to be proven". In the interests of balance, Kreutz considers it validly described, rare and possibly present on other of the Aegean islands. He (and others) do not catalogue O. pelinaea as present on Lesbos.
As with O. pelinaea, it is somewhat variable and exhibits characteristics common to members of the O. omegaifera group such as the large siver/grey speculum, recurved lobes and solid green perianth. Importantly the labellum is ringed with a complete dull orange/brown margin, unlike most other of the islands Pseudophrys in which this is a brighter yellow.
The pictures all come from Lesbos, dating from the first week of April.
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