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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids (Orthoptera) » Long-horned Orthoptera (Ensifera) » Crickets (Gryllidea) » Ant Crickets (Myrmecophilidae)

Family Myrmecophilidae - Ant Crickets

Classification · Other Common Names · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Habitat · Internet References
Ant Cricket - Myrmecophilus oregonensis - female Smooth Harvester Ants & Ant Cricket - Myrmecophilus oregonensis - female Myrmecophilus from CA - Myrmecophilus oregonensis - female Myrmecophilus pergandei Ant cricket - Myrmecophilus Insect (possibly cockroach?) found in rotting log. - Myrmecophilus Myrmecophilus americanus? - Myrmecophilus americanus - female Pennsylvania Arthropod for ID - Myrmecophilus pergandei - female
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Orthoptera (Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids)
Suborder Ensifera (Long-horned Orthoptera)
Infraorder Gryllidea (Crickets)
Family Myrmecophilidae (Ant Crickets)
Other Common Names
Ant-loving Crickets
Explanation of Names
Often considered a subfamily (Myrmecophilinae) of family Gryllidae.
BugGuide follows the classification of Orthoptera Species File Online, which treats the group as family Myrmecophilidae.
Numbers
5 species in 1 genus in North America listed at Singing Insects of North America
Range
most of United States plus southwestern British Columbia

Myrmecophilus americanus: south FL (introduced)
M. manni: western states
M. nebrascensis: southcentral states
M. oregonensis: west coast states and southwestern BC
M. pergandei: eastern states
Habitat
Ant nests
Internet References
classification and common names reference (Orthoptera Species File)
Contributed by john and jane balaban on 19 June, 2007 - 2:35pm
Additional contributions by Robin McLeod, David Ferguson, metrioptera
Last updated 6 April, 2019 - 12:51pm

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