Kinemania ambulans

Kinemania ambulans (Erichson, 1842)

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Species examined: Junior synonyms: Eremus incerta (Walker, 1869), ‘holotype’ (NHMUK 13454799); Apotrechus insolitus (Walker, 1869), type, female (NHMUK 13454797) and male (NHMUK 13454798).

Other specimens examined (images): male lectotype and female paralectotype, Orthoptera Species File Online.

The types of Apotrechus insolitus (Walker, 1869) from NHM are similar to Apotrechus by head distinctly wider than pronotum (Fig. 2A); male ninth abdominal tergite with subacute apex in the middle (Figs. 2C, 2D), and laterally produces into two stout lateral lobes (Figs. 2C–E), and male subgenital plate swollen on dorsal surface (Fig. 2F). The species Kinemania ambulans (Erichson, 1842) was first described as Gryllacris, before being transferred to Apotrechus by Brunner von Wattenwyl (1888). Rentz & John (1990) placed it in the new genus Kinemania Rentz, 1990, as this species clearly differs from Apotrechus in its male copulatory structures. The stridulatory apparatus on abdominal tergite was observed as in Fig. 2G. Female subgenital plate and ovipositor as shown in Figs. 2H and 2I. Types of Eremus incerta (Walker, 1869) and A. insolitus (Fig. 2J) were correctly identified in NHM as synonyms of K. ambulans (Erichson, 1842), although these were not published or documented in Orthoptera Species File Online (Cigliano et al., 2018).