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Orthoptera Species File
Family

Myrmecophilidae Saussure, 1874

ant crickets; ant-loving crickets; Ameisengrillen

Type

type genus of Myrmecophilidae Saussure, 1874

Nomenclature (27)

  • Myrmecophilidae Saussure, 1874: 422.

    type genus Myrmecophilus Berthold, 1827

  • Myrmecophiliens Saussure, 1874: 422. (not Latin)

    type genus Myrmecophilus Berthold, 1827

  • Myrmecophilidae Saussure, 1874 in Sanno, Kataoka, Hayakawa, Ide, Nguyen, Nguyen, Le, Kim, Mineta, Takeyama, Takeda, Sato, Suzuki, Yura & Asahi, 2021
  • Myrmecophilidae Saussure, 1874 in Gorochov & Coram, 2022: 7.

References (21)

  • Saussure, H.L.F.de (1874) Etudes sur les insectes orthoptères, famille des gryllides. In Mission scientifique au Méxique et dans l'Amérique centrale. Imprimerie Impériale, Paris. Vol. 6, 296–515 pp. Available at http://books.google.com/books?id=PVZSAAAAcAAJ
  • 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
  • Brunner von Wattenwyl, C. (1882) Prodromus der europäischen Orthopteren. Engelmann, Leipzig, XXXII + 466 pp., XI tab. Available at http://www.zobodat.at/publikation_volumes.php?id=35024
  • Brunner von Wattenwyl, C. (1893) Révision du système des Orthoptères et déscription des espèces rapportées par M. Leonardo Fea de Birmanie. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova, 13(33), 1–230. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/25035
  • Vickery, V.R. (1977) Taxon ranking in Grylloidea and Gryllotalpoidea. Notes of the Lyman Entomological Museum and Research Laboratory, 3, 1–20. [1976]
  • Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1982) Orthoptera. In Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms. McGraw-Hill Book Company. Vol. 2, pp. 352–379.
  • Desutter-Grandcolas, L. (1987) Structure et évolution du complexe phallique de Gryllidea (Orthoptères) et classification des genres néotropicaux de Grylloidea. Première partie. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France, 23(3), 213–239. Available at http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6139207n/f3.image
  • Otte, D. (1994) Orthoptera Species File 1. Crickets (Grylloidea). The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 120 pp.
  • Gorochov, A.V. (1995) System and evolution of the suborder Ensifera (Orthoptera). Part II. Proceedings of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 260, 1–213. [in Russian]
  • Ingrisch, S. (1995) Eine neue Ameisengrille aus Borneo (Ensifera: Grylloidea). Entomologische Zeitschrift, 105(21), 421–427, illustr.
  • Nickle, D.A. & Naskrecki, P. (1997) Recent developments in the systematics of Tettigoniidae and Gryllidae. In The Bionomics of Grasshoppers, Katydids and Their Kin. CAB International, Oxon and New York. pp. 41–58.
  • Gorochov, A.V. & Llorente del Moral, V. (2001) Estudio taxonómico preliminar de los Grylloidea de España (Insecta, Orthoptera). Graellsia, 57(2), 95–139. Available at http://gryllus.smart21.ru/gryllus/Gorochov%27s%20papers%20in%20PDF%20and%20list%20of%20his%20publications/2001/135%20Spanish%20Grylloidea%20%5BGraellsia,%2057%282%29,%20p.%2095-139%5D%20%28spanish%29%202001.pdf
  • Storozhenko, S.Y. (2004) Long-horned orthopterans (Orthoptera: Ensifera) of the Asiatic part of Russia. Dalnauka, Vladivostok, 280 pp. [in Russian]
  • Szijj, J. (2004) Die Springschrecken Europas. Westarp, 176 pp.
  • Barranco, P. (2005) Ginopigios de grillos ibéricos (Orthoptera: Gryllidae y Myrmecophilidae). Boletín de la Sociedad Entomológica Aragonesa, 36, 177–183.
  • Ingrisch, S. (2010) Review of the ant loving crickets from South-East Asia (Orthoptera: Gryllidae, Myrmecophilinae). Entomologische Zeitschrift, 120(1), 3–11.
  • Chintauan-Marquier, I.C., Legendre, F., Hugel, S., Robillard, T., Grandcolas, P., Nel, A., Zuccon, D. & Desutter-Grandcolas, L. (2016) Laying the foundations of evolutionary and systematic studies in crickets (Insecta, Orthoptera): a multilocus phylogenetic analysis. Cladistics, 32(1), 54–81. Available at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/cla.12114
  • Rentz, D.C.F. & Su, Y.N. (2019) A Guide to Crickets of Australia. CSIRO Publishing, 398 pp. https://doi.org/10.1071/9781486305070
  • Sanno, R., Kataoka, K., Hayakawa, S., Ide, K., Nguyen, C.N., Nguyen, T.P., Le, B.T.N., Kim, O.T.P., Mineta, K., Takeyama, H., Takeda, M., Sato, T., Suzuki, T., Yura, K. & Asahi, T. (2021) Comparative analysis of mitochondrial genomes in Gryllidea (Insecta: Orthoptera): implications for adaptive evolution in ant-loving crickets. Genome Biology and Evolution, 13(10). Available at http://academic.oup.com/gbe/article/13/10/evab222/6374467
  • Tahami, M.S., Hojat-Ansari, M., Namyatova, A.A. & Sadeghi, S. (2021) Molecular phylogeny of cave dwelling Eremogryllodes crickets (Orthoptera, Myrmecophilidae) across Zagros Mountains and Southern Iran. International Journal of Speleology, 50(2). Available at http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/ijs/vol50/iss2/8/
  • Gorochov, A.V. & Coram, R.A. (2022) New and little known taxa of the suborder Ensifera (Insecta: Orthoptera) from the Lower Cretaceous of England. Cretaceous Research, 134, 1–9. Available at http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0195667122000283

Descendants and synonyms

Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Family1023
Subfamily2013
Tribe3003
Genus6129
Subgenus3058
Species891108198
Subspecies7007