Meranoplus nanus soriculus

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

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Meranoplus nanus soriculus Wheeler, 1922 junior synonym of current valid taxon Meranoplus inermis Emery, 1895

Meranoplus nanus subsp. soriculus Wheeler, 1922: 184, fig. 45 (w.q.m.) DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated, “numerous”), 5 syntype queens, 6 syntype males. Primary type locality: Democratic Republic of Congo (“Belgian Congo”): Avakubi (H.O. Lang). Primary type depositories: BMNH, MCZC, MRAC. Primary type specimens: CASENT0902019, CASENT0902071.

Subspecies of Meranoplus nanus: Weber, 1943d: 317.
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.
Weber, N. A. 1943d. The ants of the Imatong Mountains, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 93:263-389. 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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