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Issue: Vol. 4258 No. 2: 27 Apr. 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-04-27
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4258.2.9
Page range: 195–200
Abstract views: 124
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First record of the ant cricket Myrmecophilus (Myrmecophilina) americanus (Orthoptera: Myrmecophilidae) in Mexico

Universidad Autónoma Agraria Antonio Narro Unidad Laguna, Periférico y Carretera a Santa Fe, Torreón Coahuila, 27084, México
Universidad Juárez del estado de Durango, Gómez Palacio, Durango, 35010, México
Universidad Autónoma Agraria Antonio Narro Unidad Laguna, Periférico y Carretera a Santa Fe, Torreón Coahuila, 27084, México
Instituto Politécnico Nacional (IPN), Centro de Biotecnología Genómica, Blvd. del Maestro esquina Elías Piña S/N, Colonia Narciso Mendoza, Reynosa, Tamaulipas, 88710, México
Animal and Plant Health Agency, Virology Department, Wildlife Zoonoses and Vector-Borne Research Group, Addlestone, Surrey, KT153NB, United Kingdom
Instituto Politécnico Nacional (IPN), Centro de Biotecnología Genómica, Blvd. del Maestro esquina Elías Piña S/N, Colonia Narciso Mendoza, Reynosa, Tamaulipas, 88710, México
Orthoptera Myrmecophilus americanus ant cricket DNA barcoding Mexico

Abstract

In September 2004, the New World ant cricket, Myrmecophilus americanus Saussure, 1877, was collected in association with longhorn crazy ants, Paratrechina longicornis (Latreille. 1802), in the state of Coahuila, Mexico. We are reporting the DNA barcode using the mitochrondrial cytochrome oxidase subunit I for this first record of M. americanus in Mexico.

 

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