ant cricket

noun

Any of various small insects of the family Myrmecophilidae that live commensally with ants.

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Meanings

nounant cricket (plural ant crickets)

plural ant crickets

  1. Any of various small insects of the family Myrmecophilidae that live commensally with ants.

    The Californian ant-cricket, Myrmecophila formicarum Scudder occurs in practically every nest.

    1911 February 28, William M. Mann, “Notes on the guests of somee Californian ants”, in Psyche, volume 18, page 28
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    Grylloidea contains the familiar crickets (Gryllidae) as well as the mole crickets (Gryllotalpidae) and ant crickets (Myrmecophilidae). Each of these families have a worldwide distribution, but only the gryllids are of any significant diversity.

    2005, David Grimaldi, Evolution of the Insects, page 209
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