Revision of Chinese crickets of the tribe Modicogryllini Otte & Alexander, 1983 with notes on relevant taxa (Orthoptera: Gryllidae; Gryllinae) Author Ma, Libin 0000-0002-8556-7158 College of Life Sciences, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an, China, 710119 & libinma @ snnu. edu. cn; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 8556 - 7158 libinma@snnu.edu.cn Author Zheng, Yanna 0000-0002-1256-2735 College of Life Sciences, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an, China, 710119 & na @ snnu. edu. cn; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 1256 - 2735 na@snnu.edu.cn Author Qiao, Min 0000-0001-6148-0122 College of Life Sciences, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an, China, 710119 & qiaomin @ snnu. edu. cn; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 6148 - 0122 qiaomin@snnu.edu.cn text Zootaxa 2021 2021-06-21 4990 2 227 252 journal article 5548 10.11646/zootaxa.4990.2.2 a611c37d-168e-4488-9a85-046906f7f128 1175-5326 5026190 3A881EC6-801E-421D-859C-A10FEDBCEA17 Modicogryllus ( Promodicogryllus ) nigericus ( Chopard, 1961 ) comb. nov. Tartarogryllus nigericus Chopard, 1961: 278 , illustr. 5 Holotype information. Type locality: Nigeria , Ibadan. Deposited at the Natural History Museum ( BMNH ), London, U.K. (not examined). Remarks. Chopard (1961) compared this species with Eumodicogryllus bordigalensis (= Tartarogryllus bordigalensis ) and M. conspersus , and he indicated the genitalia of it is more similar to E. bordigalensis than M. conspersus , but this species is more like the species of the subgenus Promodicogryllus than the species E. bordigalensis . Thus, we transfer it here.