Protonym: Meranoplus armatus
Authorship Smith, 1862d: 413, pl. 12, fig. 7
Forms w.
Bioregion Indomalaya
Locality INDONESIA (Sulawesi or Sumatra)
Primary type information Type-material: holotype worker. Type-locality: Indonesia: locality equivocal, Sumatra or Sulawesi (no collector’s name). Type-depository: not in BMNH or OXUM, presumed lost.
Type notes Smith states “Hab. Sumatra”. However, his material was collected, “by a friend who took a few insects at Celebes (= Sulawesi) and also at Sumatra; all the ants he believed were from the latter locality”. Discussed in Taylor, 1990d: 35; Taylor, 2006: 28, says, “Sulawesi seems the more likely”.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Meranoplus armatus Species Valid Original combination