Meranoplus bicolor fuscescens

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

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Meranoplus bicolor fuscescens Wheeler, 1930 junior synonym of current valid taxon Meranoplus bicolor (Guérin-Méneville, 1844)

Meranoplus bicolor var. fuscescens Wheeler, 1930b: 101 (w.) TAIWAN. Indomalaya.

Primary type information: Primary type material: lectotype worker (by designation of Schödl, 1998: 372). Primary type locality: lectotype Taiwan (“Formosa”): Pescadore (R. Takahashi). Primary type depository: MCZC. Secondary type information: Secondary type material: 1 paralectotype worker. Secondary type locality: same as for lectotype. Secondary type depository: MCZC.

Lectotype designation: Schödl, 1998: 372.
[Misspelled as fuscens by Lin & Wu, 2003: 64.]
Subspecies of Meranoplus bicolor: Chapman & Capco, 1951: 112; Bolton, 1995b: 251; Lin & Wu, 2003: 64 (error).
Junior synonym of Meranoplus bicolor: Schödl, 1998: 372; Terayama, 2009: 186; Yodprasit et al., 2024: 31.

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
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
Lin, C.-C.; Wu, W.-J. 2003. The ant fauna of Taiwan (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with keys to subfamilies and genera. [In Chinese.]. Guoli Taiwan Bowuguan Niankan 46:5-69.
Schödl, S. 1998. Taxonomic revision of Oriental Meranoplus F. Smith, 1853 (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae). Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien. B, Botanik, Zoologie 100:361-394. PDF
Terayama, M. 2009. A synopsis of the family Formicidae of Taiwan (Insecta: Hymenoptera). Research Bulletin of Kanto Gakuen University. Liberal Arts 17:81-266. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1930b. Formosan ants collected by Dr. R. Takahashi. Proceedings of the New England Zoological Club 11:93-106. PDF
Yodprasit, K.; Tasen, W.; Jaitrong, W. 2024. Meranoplus bicolor (Guérin-Méneville, 1844) and related species in Thailand (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). The 4th Thailand International Symposium on Natural History Museums: Era of Ecosystem Restoration -:29-45. PDF

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