Meranoplus nanus kiboshana

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

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Meranoplus nanus kiboshana Emery, 1924 junior synonym of current valid taxon Meranoplus inermis Emery, 1895

Meranoplus nanus var. kiboshana Emery, 1924f: 227 (w.) TANZANIA. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type locality: Tanzania (“Afrique orientale”): Kibosho (K. Katona). Primary type depository: MHNG (perhaps also HNHM). Primary type specimen: CASENT0908929.

[First available use of Meranoplus nanus nanior kiboshana Forel, 1907d; unavailable (infrasubspecific) name.]
As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Wheeler, 1922: 888.
Junior synonym of Meranoplus inermis: Bolton, 1981a: 52; Bolton, 1995b: 251.

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
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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Formicidae subfamilies Myrmicinae tribes Crematogastrini genera Meranoplus species Meranoplus nanus subspecies Meranoplus nanus kiboshana infrasubspecies

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