A new species of ant-loving cricket Myrmecophilus Berthold, 1827 from Cyprus (Orthoptera: Myrmecophilidae)

Abstract

A new species of ant-loving cricket, Myrmecophilus cyprius sp. n., collected in the Republic of Cyprus from the nests of Messor structor (Latreille, 1798) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), is described and illustrated. The species belongs to the subgenus Myrmophilina Silvestri, 1912.

http://www.zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:B588546E-FC72-4996-A0C2-583BCE46905E

Keywords:

• Ant guest
• myrmecophily
• taxonomy
• Mediterranean basin
• Middle East

Acknowledgements

Many thanks to Doris Stalling (Inzlingen, Germany) for fieldwork assistance, Luc Willemse (Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, the Netherlands) for providing specimens, Brian Taylor (Nottingham, United Kingdom) for the identification of the host ants, and Josef Tumbrinck (Wassenberg, Germany) and Max Kasparek (Heidelberg, Germany) for providing literature.

Disclosure Statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.