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species Myrmecophilus (Myrmophilina) americanus Saussure, 1877

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• Links:
  • Specimens in MNHN Paris
• Distribution:
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• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Ecological relationships:
  • Inquiline/Host: Paratrechina longicornis, crazy ant show more
• Specimen records are available.
• Citations (15):
  • Saussure. 1877. Mem. Soc. Phys. Hist. Nat. Geneve 25(1):461 [293]   >> Note: La Colombie (Musée de Berlin) >> Myrmecophilus americanus    urn:lsid:Orthoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:24887
  • Mann, W.M. 1918. Psyche 25:104   >> Myrmecophila americana    urn:lsid:Orthoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:469941
  • Chopard. 1968. In Beier [Ed.]. Orthopterorum Catalogus 12:250 >> Myrmecophilus americanus
  • Perez-Gelabert. 2001. Jour. Orth. Res. 10(1):70   >> Myrmecophilus (Myrmophilina) americanus
  • Hugel & Blard. 2005. Bull. Soc. entomol. Fr. 110(4-5):387-389   >> Myrmecophilus americanus
  • Hugel. 2006. Bull. Soc. entomol. Fr. 111(4):448   >> Myrmecophilus americanus
  • Wetterer & Hugel. 2008. Sociobiology 52(1):157 >> Myrmecophilus americanus
  • Ingrisch. 2010. Ent. Zeitschr. 120(1):10 >> Myrmecophilus (Myrmophilina) americanus
  • Shishodia, K. Chandra & S.K. Gupta. 2010. Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Misc. Pub., Occas. Paper 314:265   >> Myrmecophilus (Myrmophilina) americanus
  • Hollier, Bruckner & Heads. 2013. Revue Suisse de Zool. 120(3):451   >> Note: no specimens in MHNG >> Myrmecophilus americanus
  • Yong, S. & Perez-Gelabert. 2014. Zootaxa 3827(4):414 >> Myrmecophilus americanus
  • Wetterer & Hugel. 2014. Florida Ent. 97(1):127   >> Myrmecophilus americanus
  • Komatsu & Maruyama. 2016. ZooKeys 589:101   >> Myrmecophilus (Myrmophilina) americanus
  • Ortega-Morales, Siller Rodríguez, Garza-Hernández, Adeniran, Hernández-Triana & Rodríguez-Pérez. 2017. Zootaxa 4258(2):195–200 >> Myrmecophilus (Myrmophilina) americanus
  • de Luna, García-Barrios & Cuéllar-Rodríguez. 2022. Entomol. News 130(2):151-156 >> Myrmecophilus americanus
• Type specimen information:
  • Type locality: Southern America, Western South America, Colombia
  • Kind of type:  syntypes
  • Specimen category:  female
  • Location of type:  MfN

• synonym prenolepidis Wasmann, 1905
• synonym robustus Ebner, 1956
• synonym microscopicus Gorochov, 1994

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