Meranoplus puryi

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

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Meranoplus puryi Forel, 1902 valid

Meranoplus puryi Forel, 1902j: 456 (w.) AUSTRALIA (Victoria). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: lectotype worker (by designation of Schödl, 2004: 354). Primary type locality: lectotype Australia: Victoria, Yarra Dist. (no collector’s name; perhaps W.W. Froggatt). Primary type depository: MHNG. Secondary type information: Secondary type material: 2 paralectotype workers. Secondary type locality: same as for lectotype. Secondary type depositories: ANIC, MHNG.

Lectotype designation: Schödl, 2004: 354.
Status as species: Emery, 1924f: 229; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 68; Taylor, 1987a: 39; Taylor, 1990d: 39; Bolton, 1995b: 251; Schödl, 2004: 354 (redescription).

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. 1902j. Fourmis nouvelles d'Australie. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 10:405-548. 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.

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