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  tribe Myrmecophilini Saussure, 1874
genus Myrmecophilus (Berthold, 1827)
subgenus Myrmecophilus (Berthold, 1827)

species Myrmecophilus (Myrmecophilus) nebrascensis Lugger, 1898

• Common name(s):  Nebraska ant cricket
• Images:
  • female, dorsal view
  • female, lateral view
• Links:
  • Singing Insects of North America
• Distribution:
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• Specimen data are available.
• Citations (9):
  • Bruner, L. 1893. Publ. Nebraska Acad. Sci. 3:33 >> Myrmecophila
  • Lugger. 1898. Orthopt. of Minnesota >> Note: No locality given, figured type from Bruner's series from West Point, Nebraska >> Myrmecophila nebrascensis
  • Scudder, S.H. 1899. Psyche 8(283):427 >> Myrmecophila nebrascensis
  • Scudder, S.H. & Cockerell. 1902. Proc. Davenport Acad. Nat. Sci. 9:58 >> Myrmecophila nebrascensis  
  • Caudell. 1903. Proc. U.S. Nation. Mus. 26:808 >> Myrmecophila nebrascensis
  • Hebard. 1920. Trans. Amer. Entomol. Soc. 46:108 >> Note: Lugger as author >> Myrmecophila nebrascensis  
  • Blatchley. 1920. Orthoptera of north-eastern America 660 >> Myrmecophila nebrascensis  
  • Chopard. 1968. In Beier [Ed.]. Orthopterorum Catalogus 12:248 >> Myrmecophilus
  • Capinera, R.D. Scott & T.J. Walker. 2004. Field Guide to Grasshoppers, Katydids, and Crickets of the United States 211 >> Myrmecophilus nebrascensis
• Type specimen information:
  • Type locality: Northern America, North-Central U.S.A., Nebraska, West Point
  • Kind of type:  holotype
  • Sex of type:  female
  • Location of type:  ANSP Philadelphia

• synonym nehawkae Scudder, 1899