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Meranoplus niger
| Meranoplus niger | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
| Tribe: | Crematogastrini |
| Genus: | Meranoplus |
| Species: | M. niger |
| Binomial name | |
| Meranoplus niger Donisthorpe, 1949
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Identification
Distribution
Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Indo-Australian Region: New Guinea (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. |
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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
Images from AntWeb
   
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| Male (alate). Specimen code castype06968-02. Photographer April Nobile, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. | Owned by CAS, San Francisco, CA, USA. |
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- niger. Meranoplus niger Donisthorpe, 1949b: 494 (q.m.) NEW GUINEA (Indonesia).
- Type-material: 2 syntype queens, 1 syntype male.
- Type-locality: 1 queen Indonesia: Irian Jaya (“Dutch New Guinea”), Maffin Bay, 12.vi.1944 (E.S. Ross), 1 queen, 1 male with same data but viii.1944.
- [Note: Boudinot, 2014: 97, regards the single queen (12.vi.1944) as holotype, the queen + male (viii.1944) as paratypes, but there is no indication of such a nomination in the original description where “type and allotype” is used.]
- Type-depositories: BMNH, CASC.
- Status as species: Chapman & Capco, 1951: 113; Bolton, 1995b: 251; Boudinot, 2014: 97.
- Distribution: Indonesia (Irian Jaya), Papua New Guinea.
Description
References
- 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. 1949b [1948]. A fifth instalment of the Ross Collection of ants from New Guinea. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 12(1): 487-506 (page 494, queen, male described)
References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics
- Boudinot B. E. 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. 1949. A fifth instalment of the Ross Collection of ants from New Guinea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (12)1: 487-506.
- Janda M., G. D. Alpert, M. L. Borowiec, E. P. Economo, P. Klimes, E. Sarnat, and S. O. Shattuck. 2011. Cheklist of ants described and recorded from New Guinea and associated islands. Available on http://www.newguineants.org/. Accessed on 24th Feb. 2011.