The ant cricket Myrmecophilus orientalis on the Dodecanese Islands, Greece (Orthoptera: Myrmecophilidae)

By

Stalling, Thomas
Iorgu, Ionut Stefan
Chobanov, Dragan

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2020-6-30

Original Publication

Travaux du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle "Grigore Antipa"

Volume

63

Series / Issue

Issue: 1

Pages

63--67

Subjects

Distribution , Europe , Greece , Myrmecophilus

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

București, România Muzeul Național de Istorie Naturală "Grigore Antipa" -2009

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/travaux.63.e49546

 

Abstract

This study reports the occurrence of the ant cricket Myrmecophilus orientalis Stalling, 2010 on the Dodecanese Islands Kos and Tilos, Greece. This is the first evidence of M. orientalis from Greece and Europe. The species lives in ant nests under stones and in dead wood in open scrubland and pine forests. The adults were found in the nests of large Camponotus species, while the juveniles were found in the nests of small ant species of the genera Crematogaster and Lepisiota. We assumed that the species changes the host ant species during its life cycle.