Catalogue of the Myrmophilous Coleoptera With Bibliography and Notes

Abstract

Quite a number of our Coleoptera are known to associate in their imago or perfect state with the Formicariæ—comprehensively, ants. Very little, perhaps nothing, is known of the larval and pupal life of any of these beetle. Some, like Batrisus bistriatus, probably never leave the ants; but others, like the species of Cremastochilus, desert them in the spring, whether afterwards to return and propagate among them is an open question.

Beetles Associated With the Mound‐Building Ant, Formica Ulkei Emery

“…The genus Hetterius numbers some twentytwo species, all habitually found with ants. The ecology most of the species remains unknown but brunneipennis has been well studied (Hamilton, 1888;Schwarz, 1890;Liebeck, 1891;Wickham, 1896Wickham, , 1900Wheeler, 1908, 192{;). Wheeler assigns the genus to the symphiloid synoeketes (1926) and has given us our only comprehensive study of this species (1908).…”