| Authorship | Smith, 1857a: 82, pl. 2, fig. 5 | 
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| Forms | w. | 
| Bioregion | Indomalaya | 
| Locality | BORNEO (East Malaysia: Sarawak) | 
| Primary type information | Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Malaysia: Borneo, Sarawak, “Sar.3” (A.R. Wallace). Primary type depository: OXUM. | 
| Type notes | Donisthorpe, 1932c: 451, cites 1 worker in OXUM (confirmed by Bolton (unpublished notes) 1978). | 
| Meranoplus cordatus | Species | Synonym junior synonym of current valid taxon Meranoplus castaneus Smith, 1857 | Original combination |