Meranoplus parviumgulatus

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

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Meranoplus parviumgulatus (Donisthorpe, 1947) valid

Tricytarus parviumgulatus Donisthorpe, 1947e: 188 (m.) NEW GUINEA (Indonesia). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: neotype worker (by designation of Boudinot, 2014: 99). Primary type locality: neotype Papua New Guinea: Morobe, Tekadu, Lakekamu Basin, 7°38’S, 146°34’E, 600 m., 17.i.2000, primary rainforest (T. Sears & Binatung brigade). Primary type depository: CASC (neotype). Type notes: 1) Original data: Type material: 3 syntype males. Type locality: Indonesia: Irian Jaya (“Dutch New Guinea”), Maffin Bay, viii.1944 (E.S. Ross), deposited in CASC. 2) Type material lost, not in BMNH or CASC (Bolton, 2003: 254).

Neotype designation: Boudinot, 2014: 99.
Unidentifiable taxon, incertae sedis in Formicoxenini: Bolton, 2003: 254.
Combination in Meranoplus: Boudinot, 2014: 99.
Status as species: Chapman & Capco, 1951: 123; Bolton, 1995b: 422; Boudinot, 2014: 99.

Obsolete combinations

Tricytarus parviumgulatus

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and classification of Formicidae. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 71:1-370. PDF
Boudinot, B. E. 2014. Rediscovery of Tricytarus Donisthorpe, 1947, a new genus-level synonym of Meranoplus F. Smith, 1853 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae). Myrmecological News 20:95-100. PDF
Chapman, J. W.; Capco, S. R. 1951. Check list of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Asia. Monographs of the Institute of Science and Technology. Manila 1:1-327. PDF
Donisthorpe, H. 1947e. Some new ants from New Guinea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (11)14:183-197. PDF

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