Abstract
The article reports six new species in the genus Gymnogryllus from China. Photographs and illustrations of all species are provided as well as a key to the Chinese species in this genus. Gymnogryllus (Gryllidae: Gryllinae) was established by Henri deSaussure in 1877, with Gryllus elegans Guerin-Meneville as the type species. It belongs to the tribe Gryllini and is easily separated from other members by the following characters: face distinctly longer than width; oblique veins of male tegmen nearly straight or slightly S-shaped; ectoparamere with widened distal part of large upper medial process and large proximal endoparameral apodeme; ovipositor short and armed with small hook before apical part of lower valvae (Gorochov 2001). This genus is knownto occur in the localities from India to Australia and most species of the genus are distributed in tropical areas of southern Asia, including the Indian subcontinent, west Himalaya, Burma, Vietnam and Malaysia (Gorochov 2001; Eades & Otte 2010). 34 species are currently reported worldwide (Chopard 1936; Chopard 1969; Otte & Alexander 1983; Otte et al. 1988; Liu et ah 1995; Desutter-Grandcolas 1996; Ichikawa 1996; Gorochov 1983, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2001; Xie & Zheng 2003; Eades & Otte 2010).
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