Meranoplus clypeatus

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

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Meranoplus clypeatus Bernard, 1953 valid

Meranoplus clypeatus Bernard, 1953b: 244, fig. 13C (w.q.) GUINEA. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: 7 syntype workers, 1 syntype queen. Primary type localities: 6 workers Guinea: Mt Nimba, station F, prairie, 1400 m. (Lamotte), 1 worker, 1 queen Guinea: Mt Nimba, prairie, 1550 m. (Lamotte). Primary type depositories: MNHN, NHMUK. Primary type specimen: CASENT0902017.

Status as species: Bolton, 1981a: 52 (redescription); Bolton, 1995b: 251.

Citations

Bernard, F. 1953b ("1952"). La réserve naturelle intégrale du Mt Nimba. XI. Hyménoptères Formicidae. Mémoires de l'Institut Français d'Afrique Noire 19:165-270. PDF
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.

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