Myrmecophilus acervorum

Myrmecophilus acervorum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Orthoptera
Suborder:	Ensifera
Family:	Myrmecophilidae
Genus:	Myrmecophilus
Species:	M. acervorum
Binomial name
Myrmecophilus acervorum Panzer, 1799
Synonyms
Myrmecophilus bifasciatus

There are sixty-two species of myrmecophiles in the genus Myrmecophilus.

Distribution

Europe

Biology

Red listed.

Ant host: Lasius , Camponotus, Formica, Messor, Polyergus, Tetramorium, Tapinoma

Consume ant eggs, feed on insect prey collected by ants, trophallaxis with host ants. Obligate kleptoparasite.

REFERENCES

• Franc, Valerián & Majzlan, Oto & Krištín, Anton & Wiezik, Michal. (2015). On the distribution and ecology of the ant cricket (Myrmecophilus acervorum) (Orthoptera: Myrmecophilidae) in Slovakia. Matthias Belivs Univ. Proc.. 5. 40-50.

• Hölldobler, B. and Christina L. Kwapich, 2022. The Guests of Ants: How Myrmecophiles Interact with Their Hosts. Harvard University Press, Cambridge. 566 pp.

• Hölldobler K (1947) Studien über die Ameisengrille (Myrmecophila acervorum Panzer) im mittleren Maingebiet. Mitt Schweiz Ent Ges 20:607–648

• Ionuț Ştefan Iorgu, Elena Iulia Iorgu, Thomas Stalling, Gellért Puskás, Dragan Chobanov, Gergely Szövényi, Liviu Aurel Moscaliuc, Rozalia Motoc, Ioan Tăuşan, Lucian Fusu, Ant crickets and their secrets: Myrmecophilus acervorum is not always parthenogenetic (Insecta: Orthoptera: Myrmecophilidae), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2021;, zlab084, https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlab084

• Panzer (1799) Der Ameisen-Kakerlack. Fauna Insectorum Germaniae 68.