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Oregon Ant Cricket (Myrmecophilus oregonensis)
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Copyright © 2010
Jack Owicki
M. oregonensis or M. manni? -
Myrmecophilus oregonensis
El Corte de Madera Creek Open Space Preserve, San Mateo County, California, USA
November 5, 2010
Size: ~3 mm
Found in association with ants under a dead log. I saw two of them.
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Contributed by
Jack Owicki
on 5 November, 2010 - 7:34pm
Last updated 21 January, 2012 - 9:43pm
Moved
Moved from
Myrmecophilus
.
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David J. Ferguson
, 21 January, 2012 - 9:43pm
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Should be M. oregonensis in that location,
but apparently (???) the only way to tell them apart is that
M. oregonensis
runs darker as adults, and averages larger. Supposedly,
M. oregonensis
is from the Sierra westward to the coast and
M. manni
is east on the dry side (except sneaking west into western San Diego County). More recent records seem confused, or in fact the two occur together all along the coast. I suspect there are lot of misidentifications (and further I suspect that they are one species anyway).
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David J. Ferguson
, 12 December, 2010 - 2:45pm
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Thanks, David.
Seems to be yet another case where the taxonomy and ranges are not very clear.
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Jack Owicki
, 12 December, 2010 - 8:04pm
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