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Myrmecophilus (Myrmecophilus) hirticaudus Fischer von Waldheim, 1846

Rough-tailed Ant-cricket
CollectionObject 1591370; 83ae4bb4-1099-4581-859a-42b1922e0ca4: female (BG: E Rhodope Mountains, near Kralevo). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1591370; 83ae4bb4-1099-4581-859a-42b1922e0ca4: female (BG: E Rhodope Mountains, near Kralevo). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1591371; 1d3a626a-b168-4a7c-a5e1-9622db199790: male (BG: Pirin Mountains, Orelek Mt.). (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (38)

  • Myrmecophila [sic] hirticauda Fischer von Waldheim, 1846: 357.

    Syntype; fa054d35-56f2-4ef2-b454-a81c920ac1e3; Ukraine: Crimea: Bilohirs'kyi: Crimea

  • Myrmecophila [sic] pontica Miram, 1927: 132.

    Syntype; e42ea2ad-e5ce-4646-9e2a-cd9488a0f8d1; deposited at: Russian Academy of Sciences, Zoological Institute, St. Petersburg (ZIN); Ukraine: Crimea: Evpatoria

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  • Myrmecophilus hirticaudus Fischer von Waldheim, 1846 in Stalling & Seropian, 2022: 22.
  • Myrmecophilus hirticaudatus [sic] Karawajew, 1929 (misspelling of Myrmecophila [sic] tatarica Karawajew, 1929)

References (19)

  • Baccetti, B. (1992) Notulae orthopterologicae. 50. Su alcuni ortotteroidei del Mediterraneo orientale. Fragmenta Entomologica, 23(2), 247–276. Available at http://www.fragmentaentomol.org/index.php/fragmenta/legacy
  • Bey-Bienko, G.Y. (1964) Order Orthoptera. In Keys to insects of European part of USSR [Opredelitel' nasekomykh Evropeiskoi chasti SSSR]. Vol. 1, 205–284 pp.
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  • 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.
  • Fischer von Waldheim, G. (1846) Orthoptera Imperii Rossici. Entomographiae Rossicae IV. Nouveaux mémoires de la Société impériale des naturalistes de Moscou, 8, i-iv, 1–443, pls 1–37. Available at http://books.google.com/books?id=mZFByvjnxQwC
  • Gorochov, A.V. (1984) Faunistic and systematic notes on Gryllidae (Orthoptera) of the Crimea. Vestnik Zoologii, 2, 12–20. Available at http://gryllus.smart21.ru/gryllus/Gorochov%27s%20papers%20in%20PDF%20and%20list%20of%20his%20publications/1984%20%2813-19%29/13%20Gryllidae%20Crimea%20%28russian%29%20%5BVestnik%20Zoologii,%20n.%202,%20p.%2012-20%5D%201984.pdf
  • Gorochov, A.V. (1984) Towards the fauna of crickets (Orthoptera, Gryllidae) of the Transcaucasus. Soobshcheniia Akademii Nauk Gruzinskoi SSR, 114(3), 621–624. [in Russian] Available at http://gryllus.smart21.ru/gryllus/Gorochov%27s%20papers%20in%20PDF%20and%20list%20of%20his%20publications/1984%20(13-19)/16%20Gryllidae%20Transcaucasus%20(russian)%201984.pdf
  • Harz, K. (1969) Die Orthopteren Europas I. Series Entomologica, 5, 1–749.
  • Karaman, M.S. (1963) Un nouveau grillon myrmécophile Myrmecophila zorae n. sp. de Macédoine. Bulletin de la Société entomologique de Mulhouse, 5–6.
  • Karawajew, W. (1929) Eine neue Myrmecophila-Art (M. tatarica sp. n.) vom Kaukasus und der Krym (Orthoptera). Mémoires de la Classe des Sciences physiques et mathématiques de l'Académie des Sciences de l'Ukraine, 13, 63–64.
  • Machácková, L. & Fikácek, M. (2014) Catalogue of the type specimens deposited in the Department of Entomology, National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic. Polyneoptera. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae, 54(1), 399–450. Available at http://www.biotaxa.org/AEMNP/article/download/5409/7899
  • Maran, J. (1959) Beitrag zur Kenntnis der in Griechenland vorkommenden Arten der Gattung Myrmecophilus Latr. Orthoptera — Gryllodea. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae, 33, 61–67. Available at http://www.aemnp.eu/data/article-772/753-33_0_61.pdf
  • Miram, E. (1927) Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Orthopteren-Fauna der Krim I. Ezhegodnik Zoologicheskago Muzeya Imperatorskoi Akademii Nauk, 28, 122–137.
  • Skejo, J., Rebrina, F., Szövényi, G., Puskás, G. & Tvrtković, N. (2018) The first annotated checklist of Croatian crickets and grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Ensifera, Caelifera). Zootaxa, 4533(1), 1–95.
  • Stalling, T. & Birrer, S. (2013) Identification of the ant-loving crickets, Myrmecophilus Berthold, 1827 (Orthoptera: Myrmecophilidae), in Central Europe and the northern Mediterranean Basin. Articulata, 28(1-2), 1–11. Available at http://dgfo-articulata.de/downloads/articulata/articulata_28_2013/Articulata_28_Stalling-Birrer.pdf
  • Stalling, T. & Machácková, L. (2014) Synonymy of the ant-loving cricket Myrmecophilus termitophilus Maran, 1959 (Orthoptera: Myrmecophilidae). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae, 54(2), 451–454. Available at http://www.aemnp.eu/PDF/54_2/54_2_451.pdf
  • Stalling, T. & Seropian, A. (2022) The Common Ant Cricket Myrmecophilus acervorum (Panzer, [1799]), new to the fauna of Georgia, southern Caucasus ecoregion (Orthoptera: Myrmecophilidae), with additional data on Myrmecophilus hirticaudus Fischer von Waldheim, 1846. Caucasiana, 1, 21–23. Available at http://caucasiana.pensoft.net/article/87210/
  • Stalling, T. (2013) Myrmecophilus balcanicus, a new species of ant-loving cricket from the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, with notes on the synonymy of Myrmecophilus zorae. Entomologia Hellenica, 22, 29–34. Available at http://myrmecophilus.de/publications/Stalling%202013c.pdf
  • Stalling, T. (2013) First records of the ant-loving cricket Myrmecophilus acervorum (Panzer, 1799) from Armenia and comments on Myrmecophilus hirticaudus Fischer von Waldheim, 1846 (Orthoptera: Myrmecophilidae). Biological Journal of Armenia, 65(2), 120–122. Available at http://biology.asj-oa.am/11018/
  • Willemse, L., Kleukers, R.M.J.C. & Odé, B. (2018) The Grasshoppers of Greece. Naturalis Biodiversity Center, 440 pp.

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

Hairy-tailed, referring to the hairs on the cerci.

Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
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Species101314