Meranoplus bondroiti

An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World by Barry Bolton

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Meranoplus bondroiti Santschi, 1915 junior synonym of current valid taxon Meranoplus magrettii André, 1884

Meranoplus bondroiti Santschi, 1915c: 254, fig. 4 (w.) DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Democratic Republic of the Congo: Uzaga (Gérard). Primary type depository: NHMB. Primary type specimen: CASENT0913022. Type notes: Santschi, 1915c merely says of the locality, “région des grandes Lacs, Uzaga”; Wheeler, 1922: 887, provides “Belgian Congo”.

Status as species: Wheeler, 1922: 887; Emery, 1924f: 227.
Junior synonym of Meranoplus magrettii: Bolton, 1981a: 55; Bolton, 1995b: 250.

Citations

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.
Emery, C. 1924f ("1922"). Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [concl.]. Genera Insectorum 174C:207-397. PDF
Santschi, F. 1915c. Nouvelles fourmis d'Afrique. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 84:244-282. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.

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