Meranoplus curvispina

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

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Meranoplus curvispina Forel, 1910 valid

Meranoplus puryi var. curvispina Forel, 1910b: 47 (w.) AUSTRALIA (New South Wales). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: lectotype worker (by designation of Schödl, 2004: 351). Primary type locality: lectotype Australia: New South Wales, Walcha (as “Walcher”) (W.W. Froggatt). Primary type depository: MHNG. Secondary type information: Secondary type material: 4 paralectotype workers. Secondary type locality: same as for lectotype. Secondary type depositories: ANIC, MHNG, NHMB.

Lectotype designation: Schödl, 2004: 351.
Subspecies of Meranoplus puryi: Emery, 1924f: 229; Viehmeyer, 1925a: 27; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 68; Taylor, 1987a: 39.
Junior synonym of Meranoplus puryi: Taylor, 1990d: 39; Bolton, 1995b: 251.
Status as species: Schödl, 2004: 351 (redescription).

Obsolete combinations

Meranoplus puryi curvispina

Citations

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
Forel, A. 1910b. Formicides australiens reçus de MM. Froggatt et Rowland Turner. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 18:1-94. PDF
Schödl, S. 2004. On the taxonomy of Meranoplus puryi Forel, 1902 and Meranoplus puryi curvispina Forel, 1910 (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien. B, Botanik, Zoologie 105:349-360. PDF
Taylor, R. W. 1987a. A checklist of the ants of Australia, New Caledonia and New Zealand (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization) Division of Entomology Report 41:1-92. PDF
Taylor, R. W. 1990d. The nomenclature and distribution of some Australian and New Caledonian ants of the genus Meranoplus Fr. Smith (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae). General and Applied Entomology 22:31-40. PDF
Taylor, R. W.; Brown, D. R. 1985. Formicoidea. Zoological Catalogue of Australia 2:1-149, 306-348.
Viehmeyer, H. 1925a. Formiciden der australischen Faunenregion. (Fortsetzung.). Entomologische Mitteilungen. Berlin-Dahlem 14:25-39. PDF

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