Attaphila sinuosocarinata

There are nine species of myrmecophiles in the genus Attaphila.

Diagnosis
Female: Surface bristles of T2–5 similar as in A. paucisetosa and A. multisetosa fairly in one line, distinguished from the former by the more numerous bristles on T6, and from both by the more strongly bent transversal ridge of S7 and the unique shape of tubes

Distribution
Brazil

Biology
While the Orthoptera, as a rule, are large or medium-sized insects, both Myrmecophila and Attaphila are so far below even the average stature of insects of this order that we must conclude either that they have become reduced in size secondarily in adaptation to their present habitat and companionship, or that they were originally diminutive species, and, for that very reason, better able to enter into symbiotic relationship with the ants. The latter alternative seems to be the more probable

Ant host unknown.