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  order Orthoptera
suborder Ensifera
superfamily Grylloidea Laicharting, 1781

family Myrmecophilidae Saussure 1874

• Nomenclatural details:   Justified emendation (Incorrect original spelling is Myrmecophiliens)
• Common name(s):  ant crickets; ant-loving crickets; Ameisengrillen
• Distribution:
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• Citations (14):
  • Saussure. 1874. Mission scientifique au Méxique et dans l'Amérique centrale 6:422 >> Note: Myrmecophiliens
  • Brunner von Wattenwyl. 1882. Prodromus der europäischen Orthopteren 445 >> Note: Myrmecophilidae  
  • Brunner von Wattenwyl. 1893. Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Genova Ser. 2 (13)33:201 >> Note: Myrmecophilidae  
  • 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. Entomologische Zeitschrift 105(21):422 >> Note: Keys to genera & subgenera, Borneo
  • Gorochov. 1995. Trudy Zool. Inst., Ross. Akad. Nauk, Sankt Peterburg 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. Dlinousye pryamokrylye nasekomye (Orthoptera: Ensifera) asiatskoi chasti Rossii [Long-horned orthopterans (Orthoptera: Ensifera) of the Asiatic part of Russia] 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. Entomologische Zeitschrift 120(1):3-11
• 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 Myrmecophiliens Saussure 1874
• subfamily Myrmecophilinae Saussure 1874
• tribe Bothriophylacini Unknown
• tribe Myrmecophilini Saussure 1874
• genus Araripemyrmecophilops† Martins-Neto, 1991
• genus Camponophilus Ingrisch, 1995

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