Attaphila multisetosa

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Attaphila multisetosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Blattoidea
Family: Ectobiidae
Genus: Attaphila
Species: A. multisetosa
Binomial name
Attaphila multisetosa
Bohn and Klass, 2021

There are nine species of myrmecophiles in the genus Attaphila.

Diagnosis

Description

Distribution

Suriname

Biology

While the Orthoptera, as a rule, are large or medium-sized insects, both Myrmecophila and Attaphila are so far below even the average stature of insects of this order that we must conclude either that they have become reduced in size secondarily in adaptation to their present habitat and companionship, or that they were originally diminutive species, and, for that very reason, better able to enter into symbiotic relationship with the ants. The latter alternative seems to be the more probable

Ant host Atta

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