Meranoplus Smith, 1853

Yodprasit, Kuntima, Buddhakala, Nopparat, Tasen, Wattanachai & Jaitrong, Weeyawat, 2024, Two new species and a new record of the ant genus Meranoplus Smith, 1853 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Myrmicinae) from Thailand, ZooKeys 1210, pp. 207-227 : 207-227

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1210.125990
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13375871
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scientific name	Meranoplus Smith, 1853
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Meranoplus Smith, 1853 View in CoL

Meranoplus Smith, 1853: 224. Type species: Cryptocerus bicolor, by subsequent designation of Bingham (1903: 166). View in CoL

Tricytarus Donisthorpe, 1947: 187. Type species: Tricytarus parviumgulatus, by original designation (junior synonym of Meranoplus by Boudinot 2014: 96). View in CoL

Diagnosis of worker.

Bolton (1981) and Sharaf et al. (2014) defined characteristics of this genus as follows: 1) worker is distinctly monomorphic; 2) antennae 9 - segmented, with three apical segments forming a club; 3) frontal scrobes distinct, deep, and long; 4) palp formula 5, 3; 5) masticatory margin of mandibles with 4–5 teeth; 6) compound eyes present, usually strongly convex, located below antennal scrobes; 7) pronotal spines present, dentiform; 8) mesonotal spines present; 9) mesosomal dorsum fused to form a shield; 10) propodeal spines present; 11) petiolar spines present or absent; 12) with dense, long, erect hairs on body surface.

References

Bingham CT (1903) The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Hymenoptera, Vol. II. Ants and Cuckoo – wasps. Taylor and Francis, London, 506 pp. https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.106780

Bolton B (1981) 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 (2): 43–81.

Boudinot B (2014) Rediscovery of Tricytarus Donisthorpe, 1947, a new genus-level synonym of Meranoplus F. Smith, 1853 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae). Myrmecological News 20: 95–100.

Donisthorpe H (1947) Some new ants from New Guinea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 11) 14: 183 - 197. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222934708654624

Sharaf MR, Dhafer HMA, Aldawood AS (2014) First record of the myrmicine ant genus Meranoplus Smith, 1853 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from the Arabian Peninsula with description of a new species and notes on the zoogeography of Southwestern Kingdom Saudi Arabia. PLoS ONE 9: e 111298. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0111298