Meranoplus fenestratus

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Meranoplus fenestratus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Tribe: Crematogastrini
Genus: Meranoplus
Species: M. fenestratus
Binomial name
Meranoplus fenestratus
Smith, F., 1867

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Specimen Labels

Photo Gallery

  • A Meranoplus fenestratus worker forages on a dead tree trunk in Wandoo National Park, Flynn, Western Australia. Photo by Farhan Bokhari, 4 June 2011.
  • A Meranoplus fenestratus worker forages on a dead tree trunk in Wandoo National Park, Flynn, Western Australia. Photo by Farhan Bokhari, 4 June 2011.

Identification

Keys including this Species

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: -20.8° to -29.88333333°.

   
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Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Australasian Region: Australia (type locality).

Distribution based on AntMaps

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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.
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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.
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Biology

Castes

Nomenclature

The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.

  • fenestratus. Meranoplus fenestratus Smith, F. 1867: 526, pl. 26, fig. 6 (w.) AUSTRALIA (Western Australia).
    • Type-material: holotype worker.
    • Type-locality: Australia: Champion Bay (F.H. Du Boulay).
    • Type-depository: BMNH.
    • Junior synonym of pubescens: Mayr, 1876: 112; Dalla Torre, 1893: 137.
    • Subspecies of pubescens: Forel, 1907a: 12; Forel, 1910b: 47; Forel, 1915b: 48; Emery, 1924d: 229.
    • Status as species: Taylor & Brown, 1985: 67; Taylor, 1987a: 38; Taylor, 1990c: 32; Bolton, 1995b: 251; Heterick, 2009: 152.
    • Distribution: Australia.

Type Material

Description

References

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

  • Forel A. 1910. Formicides australiens reçus de MM. Froggatt et Rowland Turner. Rev. Suisse Zool. 18: 1-94
  • Taylor R. W. 1987. A checklist of the ants of Australia, New Caledonia and New Zealand (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization) Division of Entomology Report 41: 1-92.