Myrmecophilus americanus Saussure, 1877
- Dataset
- GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
- Rank
- SPECIES
- Published in
- Saussure, H.de (1877) Mélanges orthoptérologiques V. fascicule Gryllides. Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève, 25(1), 169–504 [1–352]. Available from http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/35307
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Orthoptera
- family
- Myrmecophilidae
- genus
- Myrmecophilus
- species
- Myrmecophilus americanus
Name
- Synonyms
- Myrmecophila americanus Saussure, 1877
- Myrmecophila prenolepidis Wasmann, 1905
- Myrmecophilus microscopicus Gorochov, 1994
- Myrmecophilus prenolepidis Wasmann, 1905
- Myrmecophilus robustus Ebner, 1956
- Homonyms
- Myrmecophilus americanus Saussure, 1877
- Common names
- Cricket in English
- Ant Cricket in English
Bibliographic References
- Chopard. 1968. In Beier [Ed.]. Fam. Gryllidae: Subfam. Mogoplistinae, Myrmecophilinae, Scleropterinae, Cachoplistinae, Pteroplistinae, Pentacentrinae, Phalangopsinae, Trigonidiinae, Eneopterinae; Fam. Oecanthidae, Gryllotalpidae. Orthopterorum Catalogus 12:250
- Hollier, Bruckner & Heads. 2013. An annotated list of the Orthoptera (Insecta) species described by Henri de Saussure, with an account of the primary type material housed in the Muséum d’histoire naturelle de Genève, Part 5: Grylloidea. Revue Suisse de Zoologie (Revue Suisse de Zool.) 120(3):451
- Hugel & Blard. 2005. Presence de Grillons du genre Myrmecophilus a l'ile de la Réunion (Orthoptera, Myrmecophilinae). Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France (Bull. Soc. entomol. Fr.) 110(4-5):387-389
- Hugel. 2006. Note synonymique sur Myrmecophilus americanus Saussure, 1877, et presence de M. quadrispina Perkins, 1899, a l'ile Maurice (Orth., Myrmecophilinae). Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France (Bull. Soc. entomol. Fr.) 111(4):448
- Ingrisch. 2010. Review of the ant loving crickets from South-East Asia (Orthoptera: Gryllidae, Myrmecophilinae). Entomologische Zeitschrift (Ent. Zeitschr.) 120(1):10
- Komatsu & Maruyama. 2016. Taxonomic recovery of the ant cricket Myrmecophilus albicinctus from M. americanus (Orthoptera, Myrmecophilidae). ZooKeys 589:101
- Mann, W.M. 1918. Myrmecophilous insects from Cuba. Psyche, a Journal of Entomology (Psyche) 25:104
- Nishida (2002), http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/pdf/tr22.pdf
- Ortega-Morales, Siller Rodríguez, Garza-Hernández, Adeniran, Hernández-Triana & Rodríguez-Pérez. 2017. First record of the ant cricket Myrmecophilus (Myrmecophilina) americanus (Orthoptera: Myrmecophilidae) in Mexico. Zootaxa 4258(2):195–200
- Perez-Gelabert. 2001. Preliminary checklist of the Orthoptera (Saltatoria) of Hispaniola. Journal of Orthoptera Research (Jour. Orth. Res.) 10(1):70
- Saussure. 1877. Mélanges orthoptérologiques V. fascicule Gryllides. Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève (Mem. Soc. Phys. Hist. Nat. Geneve) 25(1):461 [293]
- Shishodia, K. Chandra & S.K. Gupta. 2010. An annotated checklist of Orthoptera (Insecta) from India. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, Miscellaneous Publication, Occasional Paper (Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Misc. Pub., Occas. Paper) 314:265
- Wetterer & Hugel. 2008. Worldwide spread of the ant cricket Myrmecophilus americanus, a symbiont of the longhorn crazy ant, Paratrechina longicornis. Sociobiology 52(1):157
- Wetterer & Hugel. 2014. First North American records of the Old World ant cricket Myrmecophilus americanus (Orthoptera: Myrmecophilidae). Florida Entomologist (Florida Ent.) 97(1):Florida Entomologist 126-129
- Yong & Perez-Gelabert. 2014. Grasshoppers, crickets and katydids (Insecta: Orthoptera) of Cuba: an annotated checklist. Zootaxa 3827(4):414