Annotated checklist of Orthoptera of the Maltese Islands Author Massa, Bruno Department of Agriculture, Food and Forest Sciences, University of Palermo (retired). & bruno. massa @ unipa. it; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 2127 - 0715 text Zootaxa 2020 2020-11-24 4885 1 107 124 journal article 9452 10.11646/zootaxa.4885.1.7 feb36cfe-9304-4d55-9b28-d3be4603592d 1175-5326 4296436 A9A40D91-3B45-4F90-B962-08796FB3525B Myrmecophilus ochraceus Fischer, 1853 A fairly widespread gregarious species, recorded from all three inhabited islands ( Malta , Gozo and Comino), where it is commonly, but not exclusively, associated with Messor capitatus (Schembri 1984) . Distribution . Mediterranean.