Turanogryllus koshunensis ( Shiraki, 1911 )

Ma, Libin, Zheng, Yanna & Qiao, Min, 2021, Revision of Chinese crickets of the tribe Modicogryllini Otte & Alexander, 1983 with notes on relevant taxa (Orthoptera: Gryllidae; Gryllinae), Zootaxa 4990 (2), pp. 227-252 : 245

Turanogryllus koshunensis ( Shiraki, 1911)

Gryllodes koshunensis Shiraki, 1911: 61

Gryllopsis koshunensis, Chopard, 1967: 33

Velarifictorus koshunensis, Kim, 2012: 144

Turanogryllus koshunensis, He, 2018: 529

Holotype information. Type locality: China, Taiwan, Koshun. Deposited at Taipei University , Taiwan, China (not examined).

Remarks. This species seems to be based on the fact that Shiraki compared this species with Velarifictorus asperses (= Gryllodes berthellus Saussure, 1877 ) ( Walker, 1869) when he established it. Dr. Kim, Tae-Woo and Dr. Yang, Jeng-Tze considered it a species of Velarifictorus in their personal communication ( Kim, 2012). Orthoptera species file online (Cigliano, et al., 2021) presents a series of photos of the holotype deposited in Taipei University. According to those pictures and morphological characters, both He (2018) and I think it should be in Turanogryllus . When note that T. eous , was mentioned by Bey-Bienko (1956) and indicated the species under the name Gryllodes koshunensis from Taiwan Island is outwardly similar to T. eous .