Species

Myrmecophilus (Myrmophilina) americanus Saussure, 1877

CollectionObject 1500720; 0713ca24-bc80-466a-8fc3-83a354c4257a: lectotype and three paralectotypes. (CollectionObject).

CollectionObject 1500720; 0713ca24-bc80-466a-8fc3-83a354c4257a: labels. (CollectionObject).

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.

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)

Saussure, H.L.F.de (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
Wasmann, E. (1905) Zur Lebensweise einiger in- und ausländischen Ameisengäste. Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Insektenbiologie, 1, 329–336, 384–390, 418–428. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/44072#page/385/mode/1up

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

Mann, W.M. (1915) Some myrmecophilous insects from Hayti. Psyche: A Journal of Entomology, 22, 161–166. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/48923#page/191/mode/1up

Mann, W.M. (1918) Myrmecophilous insects from Cuba. Psyche: A Journal of Entomology, 25, 104–106. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14700301#page/132/mode/1up

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

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

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.

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]

Matyot, P. (1998) The orthopteroids of the Seychelles: a threatened island fauna. Journal of Insect Conservation, 2, 235–246. Available at http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1023%2FA%3A1009647930445.pdf

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.

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

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

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.

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

Shishodia, M.S., Chandra, K. & Gupta, S.K. (2010) An annotated checklist of Orthoptera (Insecta) from India. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, Miscellaneous Publication, Occasional Paper, 314, 1–366. Available at http://indiabiodiversity.org/biodiv/content/documents/document-9a5b06fa-7416-49a2-98d7-541bfbfbeaaf/239.pdf

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

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

Yong, S. & Perez-Gelabert, D.E. (2014) Grasshoppers, crickets and katydids (Insecta: Orthoptera) of Cuba: an annotated checklist. Zootaxa, 3827(4), 401–438.

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

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.

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.
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

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Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
Taxon	Valid names
Rank	Extant	Fossil	Invalid	Total
Species	1	0	6	7