species

Myrmecophilus (Myrmophilina) ochraceus Fischer, 1853

CollectionObject 1502437; c817a908-0da5-4453-b80b-c869d9456f1f: females. (CollectionObject).

CollectionObject 1502437; c817a908-0da5-4453-b80b-c869d9456f1f: labels. (CollectionObject).

Type specimen

Syntype; 82968295-7b5e-49f1-afe6-f793f50db79d;

Nomenclature (42)

Myrmecophila [sic] ochracea Fischer, 1853: 161.
Syntype; 82968295-7b5e-49f1-afe6-f793f50db79d;
Myrmecophila [sic] ochracea Fischer, 1853 in Costa, 1855: 44.
... Show all ... (38)

Myrmecophilus ochraceus Fischer, 1853 in Saussure, 1877: 460.
Myrmecophila [sic] salomonis Wasmann, 1890: 303.
Holotype; male; 8514b90e-86aa-41b2-a709-eb713e8795d9; Tunisia
Myrmecophila [sic] ochracea Fischer, 1853 in Bolívar, 1899: 607.
Myrmecophila [sic] ochracea Fischer, 1853 in Karny, 1907: 31.
Myrmecophila [sic] ochracea Fischer, 1853 in Schimmer, 1911: 445.
Myrmecophila [sic] salomonis Wasmann, 1890 in Schimmer, 1911: 446.
Myrmecophila [sic] ochracea Fischer, 1853 in Ebner, 1912: 109.
Myrmophilina ochracea (Fischer, 1853) in Silvestri, 1912: 232.
Myrmophilina ochracea (Fischer, 1853) in Bolívar, 1914: 223.
Myrmecophila [sic] acervorum hispanica Chopard, 1919: 344.
Myrmecophila [sic] acervorum hispanica Chopard, 1919 in Chopard, 1923: 30.
Myrmecophila [sic] ochracea Fischer, 1853 in Eidmann, 1927: 31.
Myrmophilina ochracea (Fischer, 1853) in Bolívar, 1927: 109.
Myrmecophila [sic] ochracea Fischer, 1853 in Krauss, 1928: 144.
Myrmecophilus ochraceus Fischer, 1853 in Maran, 1959: 65.
Myrmecophilus nigricornis Chopard, 1963: 174.
Syntype; female; c8599e63-3b6a-4297-99c9-a5db799829a0; deposited at: Hebrew University (HUJ); Israel: Jerusalem: Abu-Gosh, nr Jerusalem
Myrmecophilus nigricornis Chopard, 1963 in Chopard, 1968: 249.
Myrmecophila [sic] acervorum hispanica Chopard, 1919 (subjective synonym of Myrmecophila [sic] ochracea Fischer, 1853) in Chopard, 1968: 249.
Myrmecophilus (Myrmophilina) salomonis Wasmann, 1890 in Chopard, 1968: 250.
Myrmecophilus (Myrmophilina) ochraceus Fischer, 1853 in Chopard, 1968: 249.
Myrmecophila [sic] acervorum hispanica Chopard, 1919 (subjective synonym of Myrmecophila [sic] ochracea Fischer, 1853) in Harz, 1969: 730.
Myrmecophilus (Myrmophilina) ochracea Fischer, 1853 in Harz, 1969: 730.
Myrmecophilus ochraceus Fischer, 1853 in Gangwere & Llorente del Moral, 1992: 78.
Myrmecophilus (Myrmophilina) ochraceus Fischer, 1853 in Baccetti, Massa & Canestrelli, 1995: 170.
Myrmecophilus ochraceus Fischer, 1853 in Massa & Rizzo, 1998: 277.
Myrmecophilus (Myrmophilina) ochraceus Fischer, 1853 in Gorochov & Llorente del Moral, 2001: 132.
Myrmecophilus (Myrmophilina) salomonis Wasmann, 1890 in Willemse & Willemse, 2008: 38.
Myrmecophila [sic] salomonis Wasmann, 1890 (subjective synonym of Myrmecophila [sic] ochracea Fischer, 1853) in Stalling, 2010: 35.
Myrmecophilus ochraceus Fischer, 1853 in Sahnoun, Doumandji & Desutter-Grandcolas, 2010: 19.
Myrmecophilus ochraceus Fischer, 1853 in Stalling, 2010: 34.
Myrmecophilus (Myrmophilina) nigricornis Chopard, 1963 in Stalling, 2010: 94.
Myrmecophilus ochraceus Fischer, 1853 in Espadaler & Olmo-Vidal, 2011: 324.
Myrmecophilus (Myrmophilina) ochraceus Fischer, 1853 in Massa, Fontana, Buzzetti, Kleukers & Odé, 2012: 358.
Myrmecophilus ochraceus Fischer, 1853 in Stalling, 2013
Myrmecophilus ochraceus Fischer, 1853 in Stalling, 2016
Myrmecophilus (Myrmophilina) ochraceus Fischer, 1853 in Skejo, Rebrina, Szövényi, Puskás & Tvrtković, 2018: 45.
Myrmecophilus (Myrmophilina) ochraceus Fischer, 1853 in Willemse, Kleukers & Odé, 2018: 147.
Myrmecophilus nigricornis Chopard, 1963 in Husemann, Guershon, Weinstein & Dorchin, 2024: 457, 466.

Myrmecophilus nigricornis Chopard, 1963 (subjective synonym of Myrmecophila [sic] ochracea Fischer, 1853) in Stalling, 2024: 30.
Myrmecophilus (Myrmophilina) ochraceus Fischer, 1853 in Stalling, 2024: 30.

Nomenclature references (35)

Baccetti, B., Massa, B. & Canestrelli, P. (1995) Dermaptera, Isoptera, Blattodea, Mantodea, Phasmatodea, Orthoptera. Il Naturalista siciliano, 19 (Suppl.), 163–194. Available at http://www.sssn.it/PDF/PDF%20NS%2019suppl/19suppl.pdf#page=89
Bolívar, I. (1899) Orthoptères du voyage de M. Martinez Escalera dans L'Asie mineure. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique, 43, 583–607. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/110227#page/589/mode/1up
... Show all ... (31)

Bolívar, I. (1914) Dermápteros y ortópteros de Marruecos. Memorias de la Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural, 8(5), 157–238. Available at http://bibdigital.rjb.csic.es/ing/Libro.php?Libro=1362

Bolívar, I. (1927) Datos complementarios sobre los Ortópteros de la Peninsula Iberica. II. Grilidos. Boletín de la Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural, 27, 96–110. Available at http://bibdigital.rjb.csic.es/records/item/10596-boletin-de-la-real-sociedad-espanola-de-historia-natural-tomo-27

Chopard, L. (1919) Description d'une espèce nouvelle du genre Myrmecophila [Orth. Gryllidae] et remarques sur la sexualité chez les espèces du genre. Bulletin de la Société zoologique de France, 44, 339–346. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/111018#page/613/mode/1up

Chopard, L. (1923) Notes sur quelques formes du genre Myrmecophila (Orth. Gryllidae) et diagnose d'une sous-espèce nouvelle de France. Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France, 28, 29–30. Available at http://www.persee.fr/doc/bsef_0037-928x_1923_num_28_2_27104

Chopard, L. (1963) Notes sur la faune des Orthopteroides d'Israel et de quelques regions limitrophes (Blattodea, Gryllacridoidea, Gryllodea). Bulletin Research Council of Israel, 11, 161–176.

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.

Costa, O.G. (1855) Grillidei. Fauna del regno di Napoli. Ortotteri, 37–52. Available at http://books.google.com/books?id=OOZAAAAAcAAJ

Ebner, R. (1912) Zur Kenntnis der Orthopterenfauna von Griechenland. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien, 62, 108–113. Available at http://www.landesmuseum.at/pdf_frei_remote/VZBG_62_0108-0113.pdf

Eidmann, H. (1927) Zur Kenntnis der Insektenfauna der balearischen Inseln. Entomologische Mitteilungen, 16(1), 24–37. Available at http://www.zobodat.at/pdf/Entomologische-Mitteilungen_16_1927_0024-0037.pdf

Espadaler, X. & Olmo-Vidal, J.M. (2011) The myrmecophilic cricket Myrmecophilus in Spain (Orthoptera, Myrmecophilidae). Sociobiology, 57(2), 321–328. Available at http://www.creaf.uab.es/xeg/lasius/Archivos/Sociobiology57_321_328.pdf

Fischer, L.H. (1853) In Orthoptera Europaea. sumtibus G. Engelmann, Leipzig. 454 pp. Available at http://books.google.com/books?id=fV3nAAAAMAAJ

Gangwere, S.K. & Llorente del Moral, V. (1992) Distribution and habits of the Orthoptera (sens. lat.) of the Balearic Islands (Spain). Eos, Revista española de Entomología, 68(1), 51–87. Available at http://digital.csic.es/handle/10261/173978

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

Harz, K. (1969) Die Orthopteren Europas I. Series Entomologica, 5, 1–749.

Husemann, M., Guershon, M., Weinstein, A. & Dorchin, N. (2024) Type catalogue of the Orthoptera collection in the Steinhardt Museum of Natural History, Tel Aviv University, Israel. Zootaxa, 5468(3), 449–467.

Karny, H.H. (1907) Die Orthopterenfauna des Küstengebietes von Österreich-Ungarn. Berliner entomologische Zeitschrift, 52, 17–52, figs. 1–7. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/35140#page/91/mode/1up

Krauss, H.A. (1928) Die Dermapteren und Orthopteren der balearischen Inseln. Entomologische Mitteilungen, 17(2), 140–146. Available at http://www.zobodat.at/pdf/Entomologische-Mitteilungen_17_1928_0140-0145.pdf

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

Massa, B. & Rizzo, M.C. (1998) Orthoptera raccolti in Tunisia nel XIX secolo e conservati nel Museo Civico di Storia Naturale "G. Doria" di Genova. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova, 92, 273–292.

Massa, B., Fontana, P., Buzzetti, F.M., Kleukers, R.M.J.C. & Odé, B. (2012) In Fauna d'Italia. Orthoptera. Calderini, Bologna. Vol. 48, 563 pp.

Sahnoun, A.M., Doumandji, S.E. & Desutter-Grandcolas, L. (2010) A check-list of Ensifera from Algeria (Insecta: Orthoptera). Zootaxa, 2432, 1–44.

Schimmer (1911) Eine neue Myrmecophila-Art aus den Vereinigten Staaten (Orth.). Bemerkungen über neue Fundorte und Wirtsameisen von M. acervorum, M. ochracea und M. salomonis. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift, 443–448. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/103379#page/491/mode/1up

Silvestri, F. (1912) Contribuzioni alla conoscenza dei mirmecofili. II. Di alcuni mirmecofili dell'Italia meridionale e della Sicilia. Bollettino del Laboratorio di zoologia generale e agraria della R. Scuola superiore d'agricoltura in Portici, 6, 222–245. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/49549#page/236/mode/1up

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. (2010) A new species of ant-loving cricket, Myrmecophilus Berthold, 1827, and comments on M. nigricornis (Chopard, 1963) from the Middle East (Orthoptera: Myrmecophilidae). Zoology in the Middle East, 49, 89–94. Available at http://www.kasparek-verlag.de/PDF%20Abstracts/PDF49%20Abstracts/089-094%20Stalling.pdf

Stalling, T. (2010) First record of the ant-loving cricket Myrmecophilus ochraceus for Zakynthos (Greece) with notes on the synonymy of Myrmecophilus salomonis (Orthoptera: Myrmecophilidae). Entomologia Hellenica, 19, 34–38. Available at http://www.entsoc.gr/volume%2019/34-38-STALLING-First%20record%20of%20Myrmecophilus%20ochraceus.pdf

Stalling, T. (2013) A new species of ant-loving cricket from Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain (Orthoptera, Myrmecophilidae). Graellsia, 69(2), 153–156. Available at http://graellsia.revistas.csic.es/index.php/graellsia/article/viewFile/472/473

Stalling, T. (2016) The presence of the ant-loving cricket Myrmecophilus ochraceus in Sardinia, Italy (Orthoptera: Myrmecophilidae). Fragmenta Entomologica, 58(1), 17–18. Available at http://www.fragmentaentomol.org/index.php/fragmenta/article/view/164/0

Stalling, T. (2024) Myrmecophilus jordanicus, a new species of ant cricket from Jordan and Israel, with notes on the synonymy of Myrmecophilus nigricornis (Orthoptera: Myrmecophilidae). Israel Journal of Entomology, 53, 25–32. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11163758

Wasmann, E. (1890) Verzeichnis der von Dr. August Forel (Zürich) in Süd-Tunesien und Ost-Algerien gesammelten Ameisen-Gäste. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift, 2, 297–304. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/103589#page/299/mode/1up

Willemse, F.M.H. & Willemse, L. (2008) An annotated checklist of the Orthoptera-Saltatoria from Greece including an updated bibliography. Articulata Beiheft, 13.

Willemse, L., Kleukers, R.M.J.C. & Odé, B. (2018) The Grasshoppers of Greece. Naturalis Biodiversity Center, 440 pp.
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

Loading, please wait.

Descendants and synonyms

Myrmecophilus (Myrmophilina) ochraceus Fischer, 1853
- =Myrmecophila [sic] acervorum hispanica Chopard, 1919
- =Myrmecophilus nigricornis Chopard, 1963
- =Myrmecophila [sic] salomonis Wasmann, 1890

Life zone and ecology data

Terrestrial

Gender, form, and etymology

Adjectiveochraceus, ochracea, ochraceum

Etymology:

Latin for ochre-coloured.

Myrmecophilus (Myrmophilina) ochraceus Fischer, 1853

Stats

	Names
Rank	Total	Valid	Invalid
species	10	1	9