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Meranoplus Smith, 1853 valid masculine

Meranoplus Smith, 1853: 224 Type-species: Cryptocerus bicolor (obsolete combination of Meranoplus bicolor), by subsequent designation of Bingham, 1903: 166.

Meranoplus in Myrmicidae, Cryptoceridae: Smith, 1853: 224; Emery, 1877b: 81.
Meranoplus in Poneridae, Cryptoceridae: Smith, 1858a: 193.
Meranoplus in Formicidae, Cryptoceridae: Smith, 1957a: 81; Smith, 1862d: 412.
Meranoplus in Cryptoceridae: Smith, 1871b: 334; Smith, 1876d: 611.
Meranoplus in Cryptoceridae, Cataulacinae: Ashmead, 1905c: 384.
Meranoplus in Myrmicinae: Mayr, 1865: 26 [Myrmicidae]; Dalla Torre, 1893: 136.
Meranoplus in Myrmicinae, Tetramoriini: Emery, 1895l: 770; Wheeler, 1910a: 141.
Meranoplus in Myrmicinae, Meranoplini: Emery, 1914e: 41; Forel, 1917: 244; Arnold, 1917: 363; Wheeler, 1922: 664; Emery, 1924f: 226; Wheeler, 1934a: 176; all subsequent authors.
Meranoplus in Myrmicinae, Crematogastrini: Ward et al., 2015: 17.

Junior synonyms

Tricytarus Donisthorpe, 1947

Genus Meranoplus references: see above and below

Mayr, 1865: 26 (diagnosis); Forel, 1903a: 705 (India & Sri Lanka species key); Bingham, 1903: 167 (India, Sri Lanka & Burma species key); Emery, 1914e: 41 (synoptic classification); Arnold, 1917: 363 (diagnosis, South Africa species key); Forel, 1917: 244 (synoptic classification); Wheeler, 1922: 183, 663 (Meranoplus diagnosis, Meranoplini genera key); Emery, 1924f: 222 (diagnosis, genera key); Wheeler, 1935a: 6 (genera key); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1976b: 55 (larvae, review & synthesis); Bolton, 1981a: 44, 46 (review of tribe, diagnosis, Afrotropical species revision, key); Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 80 (synoptic classification); Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 16 (synoptic classification); Bolton, 1994: 105 (synoptic classification); Bolton, 1995a: 1050 (census); Wu & Wang, 1995a: 78 (China species key); Schödl, 1998: 361 (Oriental species revision, key); Shattuck, 1999: 141 (Australia synopsis); Bolton, 2003: 67, 242 (diagnosis, synopsis); Andersen, 2006: 158 (Australia species groups key); Schödl, 2007: 373 (M. diversus group key); Heterick, 2009: 151 (south-western Australia species key); Bharti & Akbar, 2014c: 814 (India species key); Boudinot & Fisher, 2013 (Malagasy species revision, male diagnosis, species key); Bharti & Akbar, 2014c (India species key); Cantone, 2017: 209 (brief male diagnosis); Sharaf & Aldawood, 2019a: 5 (Arabian species, key)

Citations

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Arnold, G. 1917. A monograph of the Formicidae of South Africa. Part III. Myrmicinae. Annals of the South African Museum 14:271-402. PDF
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Ashmead, W. H. 1905c. A skeleton of a new arrangement of the families, subfamilies, tribes and genera of the ants, or the superfamily Formicoidea. Canadian Entomologist 37:381-384. PDF
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Bharti, H.; Akbar, S. A. 2014c. Meranoplus periyarensis, a remarkable new ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) species from India. Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology 17:811-815. PDF
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Bingham, C. T. 1903. The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Hymenoptera, Vol. II. Ants and Cuckoo-wasps. London: Taylor and Francis, 506 pp. PDF
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Bolton, B. 1981a. A revision of the ant genera Meranoplus F. Smith, Dicroaspis Emery and Calyptomyrmex Emery (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Ethiopian zoogeographical region. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology 42:43-81. PDF
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Bolton, B. 1994. Identification guide to the ant genera of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 222 pp.
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Bolton, B. 1995a. A taxonomic and zoogeographical census of the extant ant taxa (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of Natural History 29:1037-1056. PDF
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Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and classification of Formicidae. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 71:1-370. PDF
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Boudinot, B. E.; Fisher, B. L. 2013. A taxonomic revision of the Meranoplus F. Smith of Madagascar (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae) with keys to species and diagnosis of the males. Zootaxa 3635:301-339. PDF
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Cantone, S. 2017. Winged ants – The male. Dichotomous key to genera of winged male ants in the world. Behavioral ecology of mating flight. São Paulo: Autopubblicato, 318 pp. PDF
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Dlussky, G. M.; Fedoseeva, E. B. 1988. Origin and early stages of evolution in ants. [In Russian.]. Pp. 70-144 in: Ponomarenko, A. G. (ed.) 1988. Cretaceous biocenotic crisis and insect evolution. [In Russian.]. Moskva: Nauka, 232 pp.
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Emery, C. 1877b. Saggio di un ordinamento naturale dei Mirmicidei, e considerazioni sulla filogenesi delle formiche. Bullettino della Società Entomologica Italiana 9:67-83. PDF
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Emery, C. 1895l. Die Gattung Dorylus Fab. und die systematische Eintheilung der Formiciden. Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Tiere 8:685-778. PDF
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Heterick, B. E. 2009. A guide to the ants of south-western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement 76:1-206. PDF
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Schödl, S. 1998. Taxonomic revision of Oriental Meranoplus F. Smith, 1853 (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae). Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien. B, Botanik, Zoologie 100:361-394. PDF
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Schödl, S. 2007. Revision of Australian Meranoplus: the Meranoplus diversus group. Pp. 370-424 in: Snelling, R. R.; Fisher, B. L.; Ward, P. S. (eds.) 2007. Advances in ant systematics (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): homage to E.O. Wilson – 50 years of contributions. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 80:690 pp. PDF
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Sharaf, M. R.; Aldawood, A. S. 2019. Review of the ant genus Meranoplus Smith, 1853 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Arabian Peninsula with description of a new species M. mosalahi sp. n. from Oman. PeerJ 7:e6287. 10.7717/peerj.6287 PDF
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Smith, F. 1853 ("1854"). Monograph of the genus Cryptocerus, belonging to the group Cryptoceridae - family Myrmicidae - division Hymenoptera Heterogyna. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London (2)2:213-228. PDF
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Smith, F. 1871b. A catalogue of the aculeate Hymenoptera and Ichneumonidae of India and the Eastern Archipelago. [concl.]. Journal of the Linnean Society of London. Zoology 11:349-415. PDF
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Smith, F. 1876d. Descriptions of new species of Cryptoceridae, belonging to the genera Cryptocerus, Meranoplus, and Cataulacus. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1876:603-612. PDF
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