• Replacement name for Meranoplus nanus similis Karavaiev, 1931d. [Junior primary homonym of Meranoplus similis Viehmeyer, 1922.]
• Junior synonym of Meranoplus inermis: Bolton, 1981a: 52; Bolton, 1995b: 250.

Citations

• Baroni Urbani, C. 1971b. Einige Homonymien in der Familie Formicidae (Hymenoptera). Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 44:360-362. PDF
• 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
• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.