Ant cricket

Ant cricket

Myrmecophilus acervorum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Orthoptera
Suborder:	Ensifera
Superfamily:	Grylloidea
Family:	Myrmecophilidae Saussure, 1874
Genera
Myrmecophilus Myrmecophilellus Camponophilus Eremogryllodes Microbothriophylax

The ant-loving crickets are rarely encountered relatives of crickets, and are obligate inquilines within ant nests. They are very small, wingless, and flattened, therefore resembling small cockroach nymphs. There are a few genera, containing fewer than 100 species. Ant Crickets are yellow, brown, or nearly black in color. They do not produce sound, and lack both wings and tympanal organs ("ears") on the front tibia.

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Extant Orthoptera families

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Subclass: Pterygota
Infraclass: Neoptera
Superorder: Orthopterida

Suborder Ensifera

Grylloidea	Gryllidae (crickets) Gryllotalpidae (mole crickets) Mogoplistidae Myrmecophilidae (ant crickets)

Hagloidea	Prophalangopsidae (grigs)

Rhaphidophoroidea	Rhaphidophoridae (cave, camel and spider crickets; cave wetas)

Schizodactyloidea	Schizodactylidae (dune crickets or splay-footed crickets)

Stenopelmatoidea	Anostostomatidae (wetas, king crickets) Cooloolidae (Cooloola monster and relatives) Gryllacrididae (leaf-rolling crickets) Stenopelmatidae (Jerusalem crickets)

Tettigonioidea	Tettigoniidae (katydids, bush-crickets or long-horned grasshoppers)

Suborder Caelifera

Acrididea

Acridoidea	Acrididae (grasshoppers, locusts) Catantopidae Charilaidae Dericorythidae Lathiceridae Lentulidae Lithidiidae Ommexechidae Pamphagidae (toad grasshoppers) Pyrgacrididae Romaleidae (lubber grasshoppers) Tristiridae

Eumastacoidea	Chorotypidae Episactidae Eumastacidae (monkey grasshoppers or matchstick grasshoppers) Euschmidtiidae Mastacideidae Morabidae Proscopiidae Thericleidae

Pneumoroidea	Pneumoridae (bladder grasshoppers)

Pyrgomorphoidea	Pyrgomorphidae (gaudy grasshoppers)

Tanaoceroidea	Tanaoceridae

Tetrigoidea	Tetrigidae (grouse locusts, pygmy locusts or groundhoppers)

Trigonopterygoidea	Trigonopterygidae Xyronotidae

Tridactylidea

Tridactyloidea	Cylindrachetidae (sandgropers) Ripipterygidae Tridactylidae (pygmy mole crickets)

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