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family Myrmecophilidae Saussure, 1874

• Nomenclatural details:   Justified emendation
• Common name(s):  ant crickets; ant-loving crickets; Ameisengrillen
• Distribution:
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• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial. Omnivorous, obligate inquilines of ants.
• Citations (19):
  • Brunner von Wattenwyl. 1882. Prodromus der europäischen Orthopteren 445   >> Note: Myrmecophilidae
  • Brunner von Wattenwyl. 1893. Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Genova 2 13(33):201   >> Note: Myrmecophilidae
  • Vickery. 1977[1976]. Notes Lyman ent. Mus. Res. Lab. 3:15
  • Kevan, D.K.M. 1982. In Parker [Ed.]. Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms 2:364 >> Note: Myrmecophilidae
  • Desutter-Grandcolas. 1987. Ann. Soc. ent. Fr. Nouvelle série 23(3):222, 234   >> Note: Mogoplistoidea
  • Otte, D. 1994. Orthoptera Species File 1:iii >> Note: Grylloidea: Myrmecophilidae
  • Ingrisch. 1995. Ent. Zeitschr. 105(21):422 >> Note: key to genera
  • Gorochov. 1995. Proceedings of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences 260:13 >> Note: Grylloidea: Myrmecophilidae
  • Nickle & Naskrecki. 1997. In Gangwere, M.C. Muralirangan & M. Muralirangan [Ed.]. The Bionomics of Grasshoppers, Katydids and Their Kin 43 >> Note: Grylloidea: Myrmecophilidae
  • Gorochov & Llorente del Moral. 2001. Graellsia 57(2):132   >> Note: Grylloidea: Myrmecophilidae
  • Storozhenko. 2004. Long-horned orthopterans (Orthoptera: Ensifera) of the Asiatic part of Russia [in Russian] 34, 229 >> Note: Grylloidea: Myrmecophilidae
  • Szijj. 2004. Die Springschrecken Europas 22, 62 >> Note: European genera
  • Barranco. 2005. Boletín de la SEA 36:177-183
  • Ingrisch. 2010. Ent. Zeitschr. 120(1):3-11
  • Chintauan-Marquier, Legendre, Hugel, Robillard, Grandcolas, A. Nel, Zuccon & Desutter-Grandcolas. 2016. Cladistics 32(1):73, 76   >> Note: Gryllotalpoidea: Myrmecophilidae
  • Rentz, D.C.F. & Y. Su. 2019. A Guide to Crickets of Australia 362
  • Tahami, Hojat-Ansari, Namyatova & Sadeghi. 2021. International J. Speleology 50(2):219   >> Note: monophyly supported
  • Sanno, K. Kataoka, S. Hayakawa, Ide, C.N. Nguyen, T.P. Nguyen, B.T.N. Le, O.T.P. Kim, Mineta, Takeyama, M. Takeda, T. Sato, T. Suzuki, Yura & Asahi. 2021. Genome Biology and Evolution 13(10)  
  • Gorochov & Coram. 2022. Cretac. Res. 134:7  
• Type genus:  Myrmecophilus Berthold, 1827; priority for family-group names based on Myrmecophilus dates from Myrmecophiliens Saussure, 1874.  First use as Myrmecophilidae by Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1882.

• synonym Myrmecophiloidea Saussure, 1874
• synonym Myrmecophiliens Saussure, 1874
• subfamily Bothriophylacinae Miram, 1934
• synonym Philobothriinae Miram, 1930
• tribe Bothriophylacini Miram, 1934
• tribe Microbothriophylacini Gorochov, 2017
• subfamily Myrmecophilinae Saussure, 1874
• tribe Myrmecophilini Saussure, 1874
• genus †Araripemyrmecophilops Martins-Neto, 1991
• genus Camponophilus Ingrisch, 1995

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