Anotated Checklist of Chinese Ensifera: The Gryllacrididae Author Bian, Xun Key Laboratory of Ecology of Rare and Endangered Species and Environmental Protection (Guangxi Normal University), Ministry of & Guangxi Key Laboratory of Rare and Endangered Animal Ecology, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin 541006, China & College of Life Sciences, Hebei University, Baoding, 071002, P. R. China Author Liu, Jing 0000-0002-8477-6572 Key Laboratory of Ecology of Rare and Endangered Species and Environmental Protection (Guangxi Normal University), Ministry of & Guangxi Key Laboratory of Rare and Endangered Animal Ecology, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin 541006, China & https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 8477 - 6572 Author Yang, Zizhong 0000-0002-2143-8226 Yunnan Provincial Key Laboratory of Entomological Biopharmaceutical R & D, Dali University, Dali 671000, China https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 2143 - 8226 text Zootaxa 2021 2021-05-11 4969 2 201 254 journal article 6505 10.11646/zootaxa.4969.2.1 51bab0c0-d141-4448-a899-615a71f2967d 1175-5326 4748849 95F7B545-F9E5-4EF2-95C2-76F40CA24492 15. Nippancistroger Griffini, 1919 (瀛蟋•属) Neanias ( Nippancistroger ) : Griffini, 1913b . Atti della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano , 51: 241; Griffini, 1914d . Wiener Entomologische Zeitung , 33: 238. Nippancistroger : Karny, 1929b . Lingnan Science Journal , 7: 743; Tinkham, 1936 . Lingnan Science Journal , 15(3): 408; Karny, 1937 . Genera Insectorum 206: 142; Jin & Xia, Journal of Orthoptera Research , 1997: 17 ; Otte, 2000 . Orthoptera Species File 8: Gryllacrididae , Stenopelmatidae , Cooloolidae , Schizodactylidae , Anastostomatidae and Rhaphidophoridae : 25; Ichikawa, 2001 . Tettigonia , 3: 71; Kim & Kim, 2002 . Korean Journal of Entomology , 32(3): 142; Storozhenko & Paik, 2003 . Far Eastern Entomologist 123: 8; Storozhenko & Paik, 2007 . Orthoptera of Korea : 88; Liu, Bi & Zhang, 2010 a. Orthoptera : Stenopelmatoidea . In: Xu & Ye. (Eds.) Insects of Fengyangshan National Nature Rreserve : 64; Kim et al. , 2014. Zootaxa , 3900(1): 100; Storozhenko, Kim & Jeon, 2015 . Monograph of Korean Orthoptera : 8; Cadena-Castañeda, 2019 . Zootaxa , 4605(1): 80. Type species: Nippancistroger testaceus ( Matsumura & Shiraki, 1908 ) . Diagnosis. Body small for the subfamily, form robust, tegmina and hind wings absent. Face smooth. Head with fastigium verticis broad. Hind tibiae with 1 large spine in middlle and 1–2 small spines on basal or apical area on internal margin and 4–7 small spines on external margin. Male ninth abdominal tergite widely rounded, with 1 pair of widely spaced lateral hooks, its apices sharp, directing outward; subgenital plate with very small styli. Female seventh abdominal sternite with 1 pair of small copulatory depressions. Species included. The genus includes 4 species in total. Two known species are reported for the Chinese fauna.