Eupodoscirtus stolarczyki Gorochov, 2004

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

Eupodoscirtus stolarczyki Gorochov, 2004

MATERIAL EXAMINED. Madagascar: 8 ♂♂, 12 ♀♀, Toamasina Prov., Moramanga Distr., Analamazaotra Forest Station near Andasibe Vill. (18º56′S, 48º25′E), ~ 900 m, primary forest, on leaves of Pandanus-like plants and at light, 11.II–20.III.2013, A. Gorochov, L. Anisyutkin ( ZIN) .

NOTE. Up to now, all four species of Eupodoscirtus are known from males and distinguished from each other mainly by their male genitalia [ Gorochov, 2004]. But these species are very similar to each other in their general appearance, and for determination of their females, we must find any differences between these species in non-sexual characters of males. The types of these species have such differences only in the coloration: E. stolarczyki and E. voeltzkowi Gorochov, 2004 are with an uniformly dark anterior part of the head dorsum and a very short darkened proximal portion in the area between tegminal Sc and R; but E. affinis Gorochov, 2004 and E. idoneus Gorochov, 2004 are with lighter marks on the above-mentioned dark part of the head and a long darkened area between tegminal Sc and R.

The males from my new material (collected practically in the type locality of E. stolarczyki ) are slightly varied in their coloration and in their male genitalia structure: their head sometimes is with slightly lighter marks around the ocelli; the apical ectoparameral hooks in their genitalia are somewhat different in length (these hooks are from those as in the holotype of this species to those as in the holotype of E. voeltzkowi , but the rest ectoparameral parts are always distinctly longer than in the latter specimen [see Gorochov, 2004: figs 4 and 9]). The females from this material have their coloration similar to males of E. stolarczyki and may be determined as belonging to this species, because males of another similar species ( E. voeltzkowi ) are unknown in this locality. Thus, I give here a first brief description of female (nov.) for this species and for Eupodoscirtus : female of E. stolarczyki has the coloration and external morphology as in male of this species, but its body is slightly larger, its genital plate is rather large and somewhat similar to that of P. crocinus (this plate is slightly or moderately longer than wide, more or less narrowing to a pair of rather widely rounded but not roundly angular lobes, as well as having barely convex lateral sides and a more narrowly rounded but moderately deep notch at the apex; this notch is almost five times as short as this plate), and its ovipositor is rather long (hind femur is approximately 1.1 times as long as ovipositor) as well as with the apical part drilling and typical of this subtribe in the structure.

Majority of the above-mentioned new specimens of E. stolarczyki were collected in the same conditions as those of P. crocinus , i.e. these species have similar mode of life.