Myrmecophilus americanus

Myrmecophilus americanus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Orthoptera
Suborder:	Ensifera
Family:	Myrmecophilidae
Genus:	Myrmecophilus
Species:	M. americanus
Binomial name
Myrmecophilus americanus Saussure, 1877

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

Distribution

Worldwide

Biology

Ant host: Paratrechina longicornis

REFERENCES

• Komatsu T, Maruyama M. Taxonomic recovery of the ant cricket Myrmecophilus albicinctus from M. americanus (Orthoptera, Myrmecophilidae). Zookeys. 2016 May 16;(589):97-106. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.589.7739.

• Wetterer, J.K. and Sylvain Hugel "First North American Records of the Old World Ant Cricket Myrmecophilus americanus (Orthoptera, Myrmecophilidae)," Florida Entomologist 97(1), 126-129, (1 March 2014). https://doi.org/10.1653/024.097.0117