![]() In our study, we surveyed ant cricket species (Myrmecophilinae) associated with A. The yellow crazy ant, Anoplolepis gracilipes (Smith, 1857), is a widespread invasive ant in tropical and subtropical regions. longicornis is more species-specific than the host associations of other ant crickets, we would expect future studies to find additional species-specific adaptations that may be unique to the M. ![]() longicornis workers that encounter the crickets. This resemblance may be mimicry, evolved to fool P. americanus specimens, callinginto question the use of this character in distinguishing different species. We found that the number of dorsal spurs on the hind basitarsus varied among and within adult M. longicornis nests at 13 sites on six West Indian islands: Antigua, Aruba, Montserrat, Nevis, St. ![]() americanus specimens (23 males, 15 females, 14 juveniles) from P. americanus was the longhorn crazy ant, Paratrechina longicornis. In all recorded cases except one, the ant host of M. americanus come from around the world, including India, the western Indian Ocean (Madagascar, Seychelles, RĂ©union), northeastern Africa (Egypt, Libya, Sudan), the Middle East (Israel), Oceania (Hawaii), and the Neotropics (Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Haiti). Here, we review all published records of M. Most Myrmecophilus crickets are not species-specific with respect to host ant. Myrmecophilus crickets are kleptoparasitic on their host ants, feeding on food resources in the ant nests and inducing ants to regurgitate liquid food. Myrmecophilus ant crickets are tiny wingless ant symbionts that live in and around ant nests.
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