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 Subgenus Promodicogryllus Gorochov, 1986 Type species: Gryllus bucharicus Bey-Bienko, 1933: 323–325 ( Tajikistan , Pyanj ) . Included species: Modicogryllus bucharicus ( Bey-Bienko, 1933 ) , Modicogryllus clarellus ( Saussure, 1877 ) , Modicogryllus confirmatus ( Walker, 1859 ) , Modicogryllus consobrinus ( Saussure, 1877 ) , Modicogryllus ehsani Chopard, 1961 , Modicogryllus nandi Otte & Cowper, 2007 , Modicogryllus mombasae Otte & Cade, 1984 , Tartarogryllus nigericus Chopard, 1961 comb. nov. and Modicogryllus volivoli Otte & Cowper, 2007 . Remarks. When established this subgenus, three species of M. bucharicus , M. confirmata and M. ehsani were included in the taxon. But the type species, M. bucharicus , bears a genitalia complex distinguished from the remain- der ones and the form of it is very similar to the species of Eumodicogryllus , which was arranged as a subgenus of Modicogryllus ( Gorochov, 1986 ) and was subsequently upgraded to a genus ( Defaut, 2001 ). According to the features of the genitalia of M. confirmatus and M. ehsani , we considered that the total of nine species as listed above should be arranged into this subgenus.