Meranoplus mayri

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

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Meranoplus mayri Forel, 1910 valid

Meranoplus mayri Forel, 1910a: 19 (w.) MADAGASCAR. Malagasy.

Primary type information: Primary type material: lectotype worker (by designation of Boudinot & Fisher, 2013: 320). Primary type locality: Madagascar: Fort Dauphin (F. Sikora). Primary type depository: MHNG. Primary type specimen: CASENT0101230 (lectotype). Type notes: Unrecorded paralectotypes are probably present in MHNG and elsewhere as Forel certainly had several original syntypes.

Lectotype designation: Boudinot & Fisher, 2013: 320.
Boudinot & Fisher, 2013: 321 (q.m.).
Status as species: Wheeler, 1922: 1029; Emery, 1924f: 227; Bolton, 1995b: 251; Boudinot & Fisher, 2013: 320 (redescription).

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Boudinot, B. E.; Fisher, B. L. 2013. A taxonomic revision of the Meranoplus F. Smith of Madagascar (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae) with keys to species and diagnosis of the males. Zootaxa 3635:301-339. PDF
Emery, C. 1924f ("1922"). Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [concl.]. Genera Insectorum 174C:207-397. PDF
Forel, A. 1910a. Glanures myrmécologiques. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 54:6-32. 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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