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Myrmecophilus (Myrmecophilus) nebrascensis Lugger, 1898

Nebraska ant cricket
Myrmecophilus (Myrmecophilus) nebrascensis Lugger, 1898: Fig. 217 (after Lugger). female, dorsal view. (Otu).
Myrmecophilus (Myrmecophilus) nebrascensis Lugger, 1898: Fig. 217 (after Lugger). female, dorsal view. (Otu).
Myrmecophilus (Myrmecophilus) nebrascensis Lugger, 1898: Fig. 217 (after Lugger). female, lateral view. (Otu).

Nomenclature (13)

  • Myrmecophila [sic] nebrascensis Lugger, 1898

    Holotype; female; a98211f4-299e-40b9-ac13-2dcd68118437; deposited at: Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (ANSP); United States: Nebraska: Cuming: West Point

  • Myrmecophila [sic] nebrascensis Lugger, 1898 in Scudder, 1899: 427.
  • Myrmecophilus (Myrmecophilus) nebrascensis Lugger, 1898 in Masloski & Greenwood, 2013
  • Myrmecophilus nebrascensis Lugger, 1898 in de Luna, García-Barrios & Cuéllar-Rodríguez, 2022: 153.

References (12)

  • Lugger, O. (1898) The Orthoptera of Minnesota. McGill-Warner Company, St. Paul, 1–296 pp.
  • Scudder, S.H. (1899) The species of Myrmecophila in the United States. Psyche, a Journal of Entomology, 8(283), 423–428. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/44238#page/483/mode/1up
  • Wheeler, W.M. (1900) The habits of Myrmecophila nebrascensis Bruner. Psyche, a Journal of Entomology, 9, 111–115. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/42922#page/125/mode/1up
  • Scudder, S.H. & Cockerell, T.D.A. (1902) A first list of the Orthoptera of New Mexico. Proceedings of the Davenport Academy of Natural Sciences, 9, 1–60. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/88768#page/23/mode/1up
  • Caudell, A.N. (1903) Notes on Orthoptera from Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and Texas with descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 26, 775–809, Plate 55. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/32571#page/903/mode/1up
  • Blatchley, W.S. (1920) Orthoptera of northeastern America with special reference to the faunas of Indiana and Florida. Nature Publishing Co., Indianapolis, 781 pp. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/16768
  • Hebard, M. (1920) A revision of the North American species of the genus Myrmecophila (Orthoptera: Gryllidae: Myrmecophilinae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 46, 91–111. Available at http://entnemdept.ifas.ufl.edu/walker/Buzz/s391lh20.pdf
  • Hebard, M. (1935) Studies in Orthoptera of Arizona. Part II. A list of the Dermaptera and Orthoptera of Arizona with new records and corrections of the literature subsequent to 1900. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 61(3), 269–316. Available at http://reader.library.cornell.edu/docviewer/digital?id=chla5077659_4271_003#page/119/mode/1up
  • 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.
  • Capinera, J.L., Scott, R.D. & Walker, T.J. (2004) Field Guide to Grasshoppers, Katydids, and Crickets of the United States. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 249 pp.
  • Masloski, K.E. & Greenwood, C. (2013) First record of Myrmecophilus nebrascensis Lugger 1898 (Orthoptera: Myrmecophilidae) in Beaver County, Oklahoma. Journal of Orthoptera Research, 22(1), 69–71. Available at http://www.bioone.org/doi/full/10.1665/034.022.0101
  • 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.

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