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Myrmecophilus (Myrmophilina) americanus Saussure, 1877

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Nomenclature (29)

Myrmecophilus americanus Saussure, 1877: 461 [293].
Syntype; female; 0713ca24-bc80-466a-8fc3-83a354c4257a; deposited at: Museum für Naturkunde (MfN); Colombia
Myrmecophilus prenolepidis Wasmann, 1905: 336.
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Myrmecophilus prenolepidis Wasmann, 1905 (subjective synonym of Myrmecophilus americanus Saussure, 1877) in Schimmer, 1909: 523.
Myrmecophila [sic] prenolepidis Wasmann, 1905 in Mann, 1915: 161.
Myrmecophila [sic] americana Saussure, 1877 in Mann, 1918: 104.
Myrmecophilus robustus Ebner, 1956: 17.
Myrmecophilus americanus Saussure, 1877 in Chopard, 1968: 250.
Myrmecophilus robustus Ebner, 1956 (subjective synonym of Myrmecophilus americanus Saussure, 1877) in Chopard, 1968: 250.
Myrmecophilus (Eumyrmecophilus) microscopicus Gorochov, 1994: 95.
Holotype; b4594bc4-d70a-4d1d-98cf-ec88356245c3; Seychelles
Myrmecophilus (Eumyrmecophilus) microscopicus Gorochov, 1994 in Gorochov, 1995: 26, 27.
Myrmecophilus (Eumyrmecophilus) microscopicus Gorochov, 1994 in Matyot, 1998: 246.
Myrmecophilus (Eumyrmecophilus) microscopicus Gorochov, 1994 (subjective synonym of Myrmecophila [sic] albicincta Chopard, 1924) in Ichikawa, 2001: 53.
Myrmecophilus prenolepidis Wasmann, 1905 (subjective synonym of Myrmecophilus americanus Saussure, 1877) in Perez-Gelabert, 2001: 70.
Myrmecophilus (Myrmophilina) americanus Saussure, 1877 in Perez-Gelabert, 2001: 70.
Myrmecophilus americanus Saussure, 1877 in Hugel & Blard, 2005
Myrmecophilus (Eumyrmecophilus) microscopicus Gorochov, 1994 in Hugel & Blard, 2005
Myrmecophilus americanus Saussure, 1877 in Hugel, 2006
Myrmecophilus (Eumyrmecophilus) microscopicus Gorochov, 1994 (subjective synonym of Myrmecophilus americanus Saussure, 1877) in Hugel, 2006
Myrmecophilus americanus Saussure, 1877 in Wetterer & Hugel, 2008: 157.
Myrmecophilus prenolepidis Wasmann, 1905 (subjective synonym of Myrmecophilus americanus Saussure, 1877) in Ingrisch, 2010: 10.
Myrmecophilus (Myrmophilina) americanus Saussure, 1877 in Shishodia, Chandra & Gupta, 2010: 265.
Myrmecophilus (Myrmophilina) americanus Saussure, 1877 in Ingrisch, 2010: 10.
Myrmecophilus americanus Saussure, 1877 in Hollier, Bruckner & Heads, 2013: 451.
Myrmecophilus americanus Saussure, 1877 in Wetterer & Hugel, 2014: 127.
Myrmecophilus americanus Saussure, 1877 in Yong & Perez-Gelabert, 2014: 414.
Myrmecophilus (Myrmophilina) americanus Saussure, 1877 in Komatsu & Maruyama, 2016: 101.
Myrmecophilus (Myrmophilina) americanus Saussure, 1877 in Ortega-Morales, Siller Rodríguez, Garza-Hernández, Adeniran, Hernández-Triana & Rodríguez-Pérez, 2017

Myrmecophilus americanus Saussure, 1877 in de Luna, García-Barrios & Cuéllar-Rodríguez, 2022
Myrmecophilus (Myrmophilina) americanus Saussure, 1877 in Pereira-Colavite, Nascimento de Souza, Lourenço & Creão-Duarte, 2025: 590.

References (25)

Chopard, L. (1924) The fauna of an island in the Chilka Lake. The Dermaptera and Orthoptera of Barkuda Island. Records of the Indian Museum, 26, 165–191. Available at http://faunaofindia.nic.in/PDFVolumes/records/026/02/0165-0191.pdf
Chopard, L. (1968) Fam. Gryllidae: Subfam. Mogoplistinae, Myrmecophilinae, Scleropterinae, Cachoplistinae, Pteroplistinae, Pentacentrinae, Phalangopsinae, Trigonidiinae, Eneopterinae; Fam. Oecanthidae, Gryllotalpidae. In Orthopterorum Catalogus. Vol. 12, pp. 213–500.
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de Luna, M., García-Barrios, R. & Cuéllar-Rodríguez, G. (2022) New records of the Old World ant cricket Myrmecophilus americanus Saussure, 1877 (Orthoptera: Myrmecophilidae) in Mexico with an updated list of known ant hosts for its New World congeners. Entomological News, 130(2), 151–156.

de Saussure, H. (1877) Mélanges orthoptérologiques V. fascicule Gryllides. Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève, 25(1), 169–504 [1–352]. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/35307

Ebner, R. (1956) Ueber einige fuer Aegypten neue oder seltene Orthopteren. Bulletin de la Société Entomologique d’Égypte, 40, 11–20.

Gorochov, A.V. (1994) To the knowledge of the Grylloidea (Orthoptera) of the Seychelles. Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 73(1), 95–102. Available at http://gryllus.smart21.ru/gryllus/Gorochov%27s%20papers%20in%20PDF%20and%20list%20of%20his%20publications/1994/70%20Grylloidea%20Seychelles%20%28russian%29%201994.pdf

Gorochov, A.V. (1995) System and evolution of the suborder Ensifera (Orthoptera). Part I. Proceedings of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 260, 1–224. [in Russian]

Hollier, J.A., Bruckner, H. & Heads, S.W. (2013) An annotated list of the Orthoptera (Insecta) species described by Henri de Saussure, with an account of the primary type material housed in the Muséum d’histoire naturelle de Genève, Part 5: Grylloidea. Revue Suisse de Zoologie, 120(3), 445–535. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/202907#page/103/mode/1up

Hugel, S. & Blard, F. (2005) Presence de Grillons du genre Myrmecophilus a l'ile de la Réunion (Orthoptera, Myrmecophilinae). Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France, 110(4-5), 387–389. Available at http://www.persee.fr/doc/bsef_0037-928x_2005_num_110_4_16251

Hugel, S. (2006) Note synonymique sur Myrmecophilus americanus Saussure, 1877, et presence de M. quadrispina Perkins, 1899, a l'ile Maurice (Orth., Myrmecophilinae). Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France, 111(4), 448. Available at http://www.persee.fr/doc/bsef_0037-928x_2006_num_111_4_16351

Ichikawa, A. (2001) New species of Japanese crickets (Orthoptera; Grylloidea) with notes on certain taxa. Tettigonia: Memoirs of the Orthopterological Society of Japan, 3, 45–58.

Ingrisch, S. (2010) Review of the ant loving crickets from South-East Asia (Orthoptera: Gryllidae, Myrmecophilinae). Entomologische Zeitschrift, 120(1), 3–11.

Komatsu, T. & Maruyama, M. (2016) Taxonomic recovery of the ant cricket Myrmecophilus albicinctus from M. americanus (Orthoptera, Myrmecophilidae). ZooKeys, 589, 97–106. Available at http://zookeys.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=7739

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Ortega-Morales, A.I., Siller Rodríguez, Q.K., Garza-Hernández, J.A., Adeniran, A.A., Hernández-Triana, L.M. & Rodríguez-Pérez, M.A. (2017) First record of the ant cricket Myrmecophilus (Myrmecophilina) americanus (Orthoptera: Myrmecophilidae) in Mexico. Zootaxa, 4258(2), 195–200.

Pereira-Colavite, A., Nascimento de Souza, I., Lourenço, A. & Creão-Duarte, A.J. (2025) 120-year gap: new records of Myrmecophilidae (Orthoptera: Ensifera: Gryllotalpoidea) to Brazil. Zootaxa, 5594(3), 590–594. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5594.3.9

Perez-Gelabert, D.E. (2001) Preliminary checklist of the Orthoptera (Saltatoria) of Hispaniola. Journal of Orthoptera Research, 10(1), 63–74. Available at http://www.bioone.org/doi/full/10.1665/1082-6467%282001%29010%5B0063%3APCOTOS%5D2.0.CO%3B2

Schimmer (1909) Beitrag zu einer Monographie der Gryllodeengattung Myrmecophila Latr. Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Zoologie, 93, 409–534, pls 22–24. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/37652#page/419/mode/1up

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Wetterer, J.K. & Hugel, S. (2008) Worldwide spread of the ant cricket Myrmecophilus americanus, a symbiont of the longhorn crazy ant, Paratrechina longicornis. Sociobiology, 52(1), 157–165.

Wetterer, J.K. & Hugel, S. (2014) First North American records of the Old World ant cricket Myrmecophilus americanus (Orthoptera: Myrmecophilidae). The Florida Entomologist, 97(1), 126–129. Available at http://bioone.org/journals/florida-entomologist/volume-97/issue-1/024.097.0117/First-North-American-Records-of-the-Old-World-Ant-Cricket/10.1653/024.097.0117.full
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Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
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Rank	Extant	Fossil	Invalid	Total
species	1	0	6	7