Meranoplus dimicans

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Meranoplus dimicans Walker, 1859 junior synonym of current valid taxon Meranoplus bicolor (Guérin-Méneville, 1844)

Meranoplus dimicans Walker, 1859: 375 (w.) SRI LANKA. Indomalaya.

Primary type information: Primary type material: 2 syntype workers. Primary type locality: Sri Lanka (“Ceylon”): (no further data) (F. Walker). Primary type depository: BMNH. Primary type specimen: CASENT0902027. Type notes: Number of specimens as cited by Donisthorpe, 1932b: 576.

Unidentifiable taxon: Forel, 1903a: 705.
Status as species: Mayr, 1863a: 428; Motschoulsky, 1863: 21; Dalla Torre, 1893: 136.
Junior synonym of Meranoplus bicolor: Smith, 1871a: 334; Bingham, 1903: 168; Emery, 1924f: 228; Donisthorpe, 1932b: 576; Bolton, 1995b: 251; Schödl, 1998: 372.

Citations

Bingham, C. T. 1903. The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Hymenoptera, Vol. II. Ants and Cuckoo-wasps. London: Taylor and Francis, 506 pp. PDF
Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Dalla Torre, K. W. 1893. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp. PDF
Donisthorpe, H. 1932b. On the identity of some ants from Ceylon described by F. Walker. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (10)9:574-576. PDF
Emery, C. 1924f ("1922"). Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [concl.]. Genera Insectorum 174C:207-397. PDF
Forel, A. 1903a. Les Formicides de l'Empire des Indes et de Ceylan. Part X. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 14:679-715. PDF
Mayr, G. 1863a. Formicidarum index synonymicus. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 13:385-460. PDF
Motschoulsky, V. de 1863. Essai d'un catalogue des insectes de l'île Ceylan (suite). Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou 36(3):1-153.
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
Smith, F. 1871a. A catalogue of the Aculeate Hymenoptera and Ichneumonidae of India and the Eastern Archipelago. With introductory remarks by A. R. Wallace. [part]. Journal of the Linnean Society of London. Zoology 11:285-348. PDF
Walker, F. 1859. Characters of some apparently undescribed Ceylon insects. [part]. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (3)4:370-376. PDF

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