Ant cricket

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Ant crickets
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Ensifera
Superfamily: Grylloidea
Family: Myrmecophilidae
W. F. Kirby, 1906
Genera

Eremogryllodes
Myrmecophilus
a few others

The ant 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.