Meranoplus excavatus

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

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Meranoplus excavatus Clark, 1938 valid

Meranoplus excavatus Clark, 1938: 367, fig. 6 (w.) AUSTRALIA (South Australia: Reevesby I.). Australasia.

Primary type information: Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated, “several”). Type-locality: Australia: Reevesby I. (J. Clark). Type-depository: ANIC (1 probable syntype). Type notes: Taylor, 1990d: 32, comments that “the sole pin labelled “typus” in MVIC (= MVMA) has lost both specimens from its card points, its labels are identical to those of the ANIC (?) syntype”.

Status as species: Taylor & Brown, 1985: 67; Taylor, 1987a: 38; Taylor, 1990d: 32; Bolton, 1995b: 251.

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Clark, J. 1938. The Sir Joseph Banks Islands. Reports of the McCoy Society for Field Investigation and Research. Part 10. Formicidae (Hymenoptera). Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria (n.s.)50:356-382.
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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