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Meranoplus oceanicus
| Meranoplus oceanicus | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
| Tribe: | Crematogastrini |
| Genus: | Meranoplus |
| Species: | M. oceanicus |
| Binomial name | |
| Meranoplus oceanicus Smith, F., 1862
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Identification
Keys including this Species
Distribution
Latitudinal Distribution Pattern
Latitudinal Range: -20.8356° to -21.7°.
| 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. |
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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.
- oceanicus. Meranoplus oceanicus Smith, F. 1862d: 414, pl. 12, fig. 5 (w.) AUSTRALIA (Queensland).
- Type-material: holotype worker.
- Type-locality: Australia: Moreton Bay (no collector’s name).
- Type-depository: BMNH.
- Wheeler, G.C. & Wheeler, J. 1954d: 443 (l.).
- Status as species: Mayr, 1886c: 362; Dalla Torre, 1893: 137; Forel, 1902h: 454; Forel, 1910b: 47; Emery, 1914b: 180; Emery, 1924d: 229; Viehmeyer, 1925a: 27; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 68; Taylor, 1987a: 39; Taylor, 1990c: 39; Bolton, 1995b: 251; Heterick, 2009: 153.
- Distribution: Australia.
Type Material
- Holotype, worker, Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia, The Natural History Museum.
Description
References
- 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).
- Smith, F. 1862d. A list of the genera and species belonging to the family Cryptoceridae, with descriptions of new species; also a list of the species of the genus Echinopla. Trans. Entomol. Soc. Lond. (3) 1: 407-416 (page 414, pl. 12, fig. 5 worker described)
- Wheeler, G. C.; Wheeler, J. 1954d. The ant larvae of the myrmicine tribes Meranoplini, Ochetomyrmicini and Tetramoriini. Am. Midl. Nat. 52: 443-452 (page 443, larva described)
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
- Heterick B. E. 2009. A guide to the ants of south-western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement 76: 1-206.
- Heterick B. E., B. Durrant, and N. R. Gunawardene. 2010. The ant fauna of the Pilbara Bioregion, Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement 78: 157-167.
- Taylor R. W. 1990. The nomenclature and distribution of some Australian and New Caledonian ants of the genus Meranoplus Fr. Smith (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae). General and Applied Entomology 22: 31-40.