A new species of the genus Velarifictorus Randell, 1964 (Orthoptera: Gryllidae) from Yunnan, China

The genus Velarifictorus Randell, 1964 is the larger genus in Gryllinae. Up to now, it comprises 3 subgenera (Velarifictorus Randell, 1964, Pseudocoiblemmus Gorochov, 2001 and Buangina Otte et Alexander, 1983), including 101 species and subspecies (Cigliano et al., 2017). The subgenus Velarifictorus is the largest in the genus Velarifictorus, and mostly distributed in Australia, Africa and Asia (Cigliano et al., 2017). In Asia, six species of this subgenus are recorded from Japan (Ichikawa et al., 2000; Ichikawa et al., 2006), thirteen species from India (Chopard, 1969; Vasanth, 1993), nine species from Vietnam (Kim & Hong, 2014), and also three species from Korea (Storozhenko et al., 2015). There are eleven species and subspecies of the subgenus Velarifictorus distributed in China (Yin & Liu, 1995; Wang et al., 1998; Xie, 2004; Cigliano et al., 2017): V. (V.) aspersus (Walker, 1869), V. (V.) beybienkoi Gorochov, 1985, V. (V.) flavifrons Chopard, 1966, V. (V.) hemelytrus (Saussure, 1877), V. (V.) curvinervis Xie, 2004, V. (V.) khasiensis Vasanth et Ghosh, 1975, V. (V.) micado (Saussure, 1877), V. (V.) ornatus ornatus (Shiraki, 1911), V. (V.) ornatus caudatus (Shiraki, 1930), V. (V.) parvus (Chopard, 1928), and V. (V.) ryukyuensis Oshiro, 1990. A new species of the subgenus Velarifictorus is discovered in Yunnan province of China and described in this paper. The holotype of a new species is deposited in the Museum of Hebei University, Baoding, China (MHBU).