Meranoplus aureolus
Meranoplus aureolus | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Formicidae |
Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
Tribe: | Crematogastrini |
Genus: | Meranoplus |
Species: | M. aureolus |
Binomial name | |
Meranoplus aureolus Crawley, 1921 |
Identification
Distribution
Latitudinal Distribution Pattern
Latitudinal Range: -12.46153° to -12.46153°.
North Temperate |
North Subtropical |
Tropical | South Subtropical |
South Temperate |
- Source: AntMaps
Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Australasian Region: Australia (type locality).
Distribution based on AntMaps
Distribution based on AntWeb specimens
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Countries Occupied
Number of countries occupied by this species based on AntWiki Regional Taxon Lists. In general, fewer countries occupied indicates a narrower range, while more countries indicates a more widespread species. |
Estimated Abundance
Relative abundance based on number of AntMaps records per species (this species within the purple bar). Fewer records (to the left) indicates a less abundant/encountered species while more records (to the right) indicates more abundant/encountered species. |
Biology
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- aureolus. Meranoplus aureolus Crawley, 1921: 91 (w.) AUSTRALIA (Northern Territory).
- Type-material: lectotype worker (by designation of Taylor, 1990c: 34), 2 paralectotype workers.
- Type-locality: lectotype Australia: Northern Territory, Koolpinyah, no. 604 (Hill); paralectotypes with same data.
- Type-depositories: OXUM (lectotype); MVMA, OXUM (paralectotypes).
- [Note: Crawley says, “Type in British Museum”, but Taylor, 1990c: 34, does not record any type-material from this depository.]
- [Misspelled as aerolus by Santschi, 1928e: 469.]
- Status as species: Taylor & Brown, 1985: 66; Taylor, 1987a: 38; Taylor, 1990c: 32; Bolton, 1995b: 250.
- Distribution: Australia.
Type Material
- Syntype, Koolpinyah, Northern Territory, Australia, museum unknown (probably UMO (Oxford)).
Description
References
- Crawley, W. C. 1921. New and little-known species of ants from various localities. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 9(7): 87-97. (page 91, worker de*Heterick, B.E. 2021. A guide to the ants of Western Australia. Part I: Systematics. Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement 86, 1-245 (doi:10.18195/issn.0313-122x.86.2021.001-245).
- Heterick, B.E. 2022. A guide to the ants of Western Australia. Part II: Distribution and biology. Records of the Western Australian Museum, supplement 86: 247-510 (doi:10.18195/issn.0313-122x.86.2022.247-510).
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