🦋 Family

Myrmecophilidae

3 species · Animals

Animalia › Arthropoda › Insecta › Orthoptera › Myrmecophilidae

Myrmecophilus acervorum is a tiny parthenogenetic ant-loving cricket that lives as an inquiline in ant nests across continental Europe.

Myrmecophilus oregonensis, the Oregon or west coast ant cricket, is a Myrmecophilidae species found in North America.

This is a morphological description and US distribution record for the ant cricket species Myrmecophilus pergandei Bruner, 1884.

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