Varitrella Gorochov, 2003

Gorochov, A. V., 2025, Taxonomy of Podoscirtinae (Orthoptera: Gryllidae). Part 17: some Madagascan genera and Varitrella, Russian Entomological Journal 34 (1), pp. 19-36 : 27

Genus Varitrella Gorochov, 2003

Type species Madasumma nigrifrons Chopard, 1931 .

NOTES. This Indo-Malayan genus was firstly divided into two subgenera by Gorochov [2006]: Varitrella s.str. and Cantotrella Gorochov, 2006. Later in the latter subgenus, rather numerous and diverse new species were described [ Gorochov, Tan, 2014; Tan et al., 2020, 2022]. In relation to their male genitalia structure, these species form four wellseparated species groups (in the above-mentioned paper by Gorochov & Tan, five such groups were proposed, but one of them is here eliminated): the first group with V. (C.) mjobergi (Chopard, 1930) , V. (C.) glabra (Ingrisch, 1997) , V. (C.) variabilis Gorochov, 2006 , V. (C.) orion Tan et Gorochov, 2014 , V. (C.) trusmadi Gorochov,2014 , V. (C.) striata Gorochov, 2014 , V. (C.) robusta Gorochov, 2014 , V. (C.) sukau Gorochov, 2014 , V. (C.) tawau Gorochov, 2014 , V. (C.) amoena Gorochov, 2014 , V. (C.) suikei Tan et al., 2020 , V. (C.) tabin Tan et al., 2020 and V. (C.) exculta sp.n.; the second group with V. (C.) conspersa (Stål, 1877) , V. (C.) depressa Gorochov, 2003 , V. (C.) manukan Gorochov, 2014 and V. (C.) paraiso sp.n., the third group with V. (C.) saussurei (Stål, 1877) , V. (C.)? bakeri (Chopard, 1925) , V. (C.) mindoroensis Gorochov, 2006 , V. (C.) contraria sp.n., V. (C.) sympatrica sp.n. and probably V. (C.) quadrata (Haan, 1842) (this Haan’s species is here transferred from the monobasic fifth group; thus, the latter group is eliminated); the fourth group with V. (C.) palawanensis Gorochov, 2006 (type species of Cantotrella ), V. (C.) mindanao sp.n., V. (C.) sumatra sp.n. and possibly V. (C.) fuscoirrorata (Chopard, 1925) . For separation of the latter (fourth) group from all the others, I propose to use not the presence or absence of denticles on the apical lobes of the rachis but the location of the dorsoapical epiphalic processes, which are very close to each other in this group and rather widely spaced in other groups.