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 ( Modicogryllus ) latefasciatus ( Chopard, 1933 ) Gryllus latefasciatus Chopard, 1933: 2 Modicogryllus latefasciatus , Chopard, 1961: 275 ; Gorochov, 1996: 109 Velarifictorus latefasciatus , Yin & Liu, 1995: 61 , misidentification Velarifictorus ( Velarifictorus ) micado , He, 2018: 530 , misapplied synonymy Holotype information. Type locality: China , Sichuan Province ( Kipa. N.O. , Szechuan. Sven Hedins Exp. Ctr. Asien. Dr. Hummel). Deposited at the Swedish Royal Museum of Natural History ( Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet , NHRM) Stockholm , Sweden (not examined). Remarks. Chopard (1933) described this species under the genus of Gryllus and moved it into the genus of Modicogryllus ( Chopard, 1961 ) , however, in his studies, he did not produce any graphic or describe the features of male genitalia. Gorochov (1996) examined the holotype and he described and illustrated this species. He indicated that the head of this species slightly resembles to the species of the genus Velarifictorus . It might since the similar reason, Yin and Liu (1995) arranged some Velarifictorus specimens ( Yin & Liu, 1995 : illustr. 182–184) under this name and moved this species from Modicogryllus to the genus Velarifictorus . According to the work of Yin and Liu, He (2018) considered the species Velarifictorus latefasciatus ( Chopard, 1933 ) was junior synonym of Velarifictorus micado ( Saussure, 1877 ) . This is a mistake made over and over again and M. latefasciatus is a Modicogryllus species but not of Velarifictorus . This species has not been rediscovered by Chinese for so many years and it is also difficult for us to find it since the type locality is only recorded with the name of Province and without any more information.