Parasanaa is a genus of bush-cricket recorded from India, Indochina, Malesia through to New Guinea.

[4] The adult is black with lemon-yellow patches on the thorax and tegmina.

It is heavy and sluggish, generally still by day, nestled among the cactus thorns, with the front legs and the long antennae stretched forward onto the plant's surface, parallel to each other.

To escape predators it would rather drop from the cactus than take flight.

[3] When the thorax is pinched, the insect squirts a slimy yellow fluid from two slits on the dorsal surface of the mesothorax, with a range of three to four inches.