Meranoplus excisus

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

Catalog › Formicidae › Myrmicinae › Crematogastrini › Meranoplus › Meranoplus excisus

Meranoplus excisus Arnold, 1914 junior synonym of current valid taxon Meranoplus peringueyi Emery, 1886

Meranoplus excisus Arnold, 1914: 29, fig. 9 (w.) SOUTH AFRICA. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type locality: South Africa: Natal, Estcourt (R.C. Wroughton). Primary type depositories: BMNH, SAMC. Primary type specimen: CASENT0902016.

Status as species: Arnold, 1917: 367; Wheeler, 1922: 888; Emery, 1924f: 227.
Junior synonym of Meranoplus peringueyi: Bolton, 1981a: 56; Bolton, 1995b: 251.

Citations

Arnold, G. 1914. Nest-changing migrations of two species of ants. Proceedings and Transactions of the Rhodesia Scientific Association 13:25-32. PDF
Arnold, G. 1917. A monograph of the Formicidae of South Africa. Part III. Myrmicinae. Annals of the South African Museum 14:271-402. 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.
Emery, C. 1924f ("1922"). Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [concl.]. Genera Insectorum 174C:207-397. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.

AntWeb AntWiki HOL Google Scholar

Formicidae subfamilies Myrmicinae tribes Crematogastrini genera Meranoplus species

show invalid