Podoscirtus crocinus Serville, 1839

Gorochov, A. V., 2025, Taxonomy of Podoscirtinae (Orthoptera: Gryllidae). Part 17: some Madagascan genera and Varitrella, Russian Entomological Journal 34 (1), pp. 19-36 : 20

Podoscirtus crocinus Serville, 1839

MATERIAL EXAMINED. Madagascar: 2 ♂♂, 1 ♀, Toamasina Prov., Moramanga Distr., Analamazaotra Forest Station near Andasibe Vill. (18º56′S, 48º25′E), ~ 900 m, primary forest, on leaves of Pandanus-like plants, 1–20.III.2013, A. Gorochov, L. Anisyutkin ( ZIN) .

NOTE. These specimens from central-eastern part of Madagascar are very similar to the neotype of this large species designed by me on the base of a male from southern part of this island [ Gorochov, 2004]. The two specimens of P. crocinus from “Rogez” (unknown part of Madagascar), received by ZIN in exchange with Paris Museum ( Muséum national d'histoire naturelle) and attributed in the same paper to this species, are also very similar to my specimens. However , they all have some small differences in their body coloration and the male genitalia structure: the tegminal lateral fields may be almost completely light greyish brown with darker veins, or the proximal membranes in these fields may be brown to dark brown; hind femora may be almost uniform (brown or light brown) but with a pair of dark lateroapical spots, whereas in most specimens from the environs of Andasibe , all the apical parts of these femora are darkened; differences in the male genitalia are insignificant, within the limits of species variability. Such wide distribution of this species in Madagascar is possibly connected with life of these insects on the widely distributed Pandanus-like plants: during the daytime they hide between the bases of the leaves of these plants, but at night they openly climb these very long leaves in search of food and sexual partners .