ABSTRACT
Arthropods that live with, or are associated with, ants are termed myrmecophiles (Wilson 1971, Kistner 1982). This relationship can be permanent or temporary, obligatory or facultative, integrated or nonintegrated. The biology and behavior of these relationships is inadequately known, with much of the information reported in the literature based on cursory observations or invalid interpretations (e.g. miscellaneous soil arthropods floated out of fire ant colonies, Collins and Markin 1971). References to myrmecophiles and their host relationships are numerous, widely scattered and often as difficult to find as the myrmecophiles.
