Meranoplus nanus nanior

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

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Meranoplus nanus nanior Forel, 1907 junior synonym of current valid taxon Meranoplus inermis Emery, 1895

Meranoplus nanus subsp. nanior Forel, 1907d: 12 (w.) TANZANIA. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type locality: Tanzania (“Afrique orientale”): Mto-ya-Kifaru (K. Katona). Primary type depository: MHNG (perhaps also HNHM).

Viehmeyer, 1922: 209 (q.)
Subspecies of Meranoplus nanus: Santschi, 1916b: 506; Arnold, 1917: 366; Viehmeyer, 1922: 209; Wheeler, 1922: 888; Emery, 1924f: 227.
Junior synonym of Meranoplus inermis: Bolton, 1981a: 52; Bolton, 1995b: 251.

Infrasubspecies

M. n. n. kiboshana Forel, 1907

Citations

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
Forel, A. 1907d. Formicides du Musée National Hongrois. Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici 5:1-42. PDF
Santschi, F. 1916b ("1915"). Descriptions de fourmis nouvelles d'Afrique et d'Amérique. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 84:497-513. PDF
Viehmeyer, H. 1922. Neue Ameisen. Archiv für Naturgeschichte (A)88(7):203-220. 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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