Ant cricket
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| Ant cricket | |
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| Myrmecophila acervorum | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Orthoptera |
| Superfamily: | Grylloidea |
| Family: | Myrmecophilidae Saussure, 1874 |
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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 in color and can be heard by listing to the quiet "tweeting" of the ant piles.
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