Ant cricket
| Ant cricket | |
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| Myrmecophilus acervorum | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Orthoptera |
| Suborder: | Ensifera |
| Superfamily: | Gryllotalpoidea |
| Family: | Myrmecophilidae Saussure, 1874 |
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The Myrmecophilidae[1] or ant-loving crickets are rarely encountered relatives of mole crickets, and are obligate inquilines within ant nests. They are very small, wingless, and flattened, so resemble small cockroach nymphs. The few genera contain fewer than 100 species. Ant crickets are yellow, brown, or nearly black in color. They do not produce sound, and lack both wings and tympanal organs ("ears") on the front tibia.
Tribes and genera[]
The Orthoptera Species File lists two subfamilies:[2]
Bothriophylacinae[]
Auth.: Miram, 1934; distribution: northern Africa, western Asia
- tribe Bothriophylacini Miram, 1934
- Miram, 1934
- Chopard, 1929
- tribe Microbothriophylacini Gorochov, 2017
- Gorochov, 1993
Myrmecophilinae[]
Auth.: Saussure, 1874; distribution: global
- tribe Myrmecophilini Saussure, 1874
- Myrmecophilus Berthold, 1827
- Uvarov, 1940
- Incertae sedis
- † Martins-Neto, 1991
- Ingrisch, 1995
References[]
- ^ Saussure (1874) Mission scientifique au Méxique et dans l'Amérique centrale 6:422.
- ^ Orthoptera Species File (Version 5.0/5.0)
External links[]
Media related to Myrmecophilidae at Wikimedia Commons
Categories:
- Ensifera
- Extant Jurassic first appearances