Meranoplus armatus Smith, 1862 valid
Meranoplus armatus Smith, 1862d: 413, pl. 12, fig. 7 (w.) INDONESIA (Sulawesi or Sumatra). Indomalaya.
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”.
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