Meranoplus armatus Smith, 1862 valid
Meranoplus armatus Smith, 1862d: 413, pl. 12, fig. 7 (w.) INDONESIA (Sulawesi or Sumatra). Indomalaya.
Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Indonesia: locality equivocal, Sumatra or Sulawesi (no collector’s name). Primary type depository: unknown (not in BMNH or OXUM, presumed lost). Type notes: 1) Smith, 1862d states “Hab. Sumatra”. However, his material was collected, “by a friend who took a few insects at Celebes (= Sulawesi) and also at Sumatra; all the ants he believed were from the latter locality”. Discussed in Taylor, 1990d: 35. 2) Taylor, 2006: 28, says, “Sulawesi seems the more likely”.
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