Travaux du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle “Grigore Antipa” 63(1): 63-67, doi: 10.3897/travaux.63.e49546
The ant cricket Myrmecophilus orientalis on the Dodecanese Islands, Greece (Orthoptera: Myrmecophilidae)
Thomas Stalling‡, Ionuț Ștefan Iorgu§, Dragan Petrov Chobanov|‡ private, Inzlingen, Germany§ "Grigore Antipa" National Museum of Natural History, Bucharest, Romania| Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, Sofia, Bulgaria
Corresponding author: Thomas Stalling ( stalling@gmx.de ) Academic editor: Elena Iulia Iorgu © Thomas Stalling, Ionuț Ștefan Iorgu, Dragan Petrov Chobanov. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Citation:
Stalling T, Iorgu IȘ, Chobanov DP (2020) The ant cricket Myrmecophilus orientalis on the Dodecanese Islands, Greece (Orthoptera: Myrmecophilidae). Travaux du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle “Grigore Antipa” 63(1): 63-67. 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.
Keywords
Myrmecophilus, distribution, Europe, Greece