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Eastern Ant Cricket (Myrmecophilus pergandei)
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Copyright © 2007
Steve Nanz
Cricket -
Myrmecophilus pergandei
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Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, USA
June 10, 2007
Size: 5mm
Going by memory on the size. Found several under a rock. Ant cricket, Myrmecophilus sp, perhaps?
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Contributed by
Steve Nanz
on 17 June, 2007 - 5:22am
Last updated 12 December, 2010 - 2:34pm
I'm so sad...
I can't believe it! I just found either this or another species under a stone in a Carpenter ant nest.
I went back for my camera but by the time I came back the crickets had fled & I foolishly tried digging them out.
Bad idea...
*Sigh*
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Jonas Insinga
, 21 April, 2008 - 4:33pm
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Yes!
Great find, and a fabulous image! It is indeed an ant cricket.
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Eric R. Eaton
, 18 June, 2007 - 5:27pm
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Eastern Ant Cricket?
Thanks Eric.
Only one species exist in the east: Eastern Ant Cricket - Myrmecophilus pergandei. I found one image
here
which looked pretty good with the hind tibia spurs matching well. However, the range map in my Grasshoppers, Katydids, and Crickets Of The United Sates field guide places this fellow south of New Jersey and the illustration looks very different.
There appears to be no family or species pages in Bugguide.
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Steve Nanz
, 19 June, 2007 - 3:53am
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Comments in
this
Mississippi paper seem to imply pergandei is only species in the east, so we will move it there pending more information.
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john and jane balaban
, 19 June, 2007 - 2:39pm
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