Meranoplus parviumgulatus

Meranoplus parviumgulatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Myrmicinae
Tribe:	Crematogastrini
Genus:	Meranoplus
Species:	M. parviumgulatus
Binomial name
Meranoplus parviumgulatus (Donisthorpe, 1947)

Distribution

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Indo-Australian Region: New Guinea.

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.

Castes

Described from the male caste.

Nomenclature

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

• parviumgulatus. Tricytarus parviumgulatus Donisthorpe, 1947d: 188 (m.) NEW GUINEA (Indonesia).
  • Type-material: neotype worker (by designation of Boudinot, 2014: 99).
  • Type-locality: neotype Papua New Guinea: Morobe, Tekadu, Lakekamu Basin, 7°38’S, 146°34’E, 600 m., 17.i.2000, primary rainforest (T. Sears & Binatung brigade ).
  • [Note: original data: type-material: 3 syntype males. Type-locality: Indonesia: Irian Jaya (“Dutch New Guinea”), Maffin Bay, viii.1944 (E.S. Ross); CASC, specimens lost.]
  • Type-depository: CASC.
  • Unidentifiable taxon, incertae sedis in Formicoxenini: Bolton, 2003: 254.
  • Combination in Meranoplus: Boudinot, 2014: 99.
  • Status as species: Chapman & Capco, 1951: 123; Bolton, 1995b: 422; Boudinot, 2014: 99.
  • Distribution: Indonesia (Irian Jaya), Papua New Guinea).

Type Material

• Neotype (designated by Boudinot, 2014: 99), male, Tekadu, Lakekamu Basin, Morobe, Papua New Guinea, 7°38′0″S 146°34′0″E, 17 January 2000, T. Sears & Binatung brigade, CASENT-0171191, California Academy of Sciences; primary rainforest.

Unless otherwise noted the text for the remainder of this section is reported from the publication that includes the original description.

Description

Worker

Male. Blackish brown, legs lighter, antennae and tarsi pale yellow. Clothed with longer and shorter outstanding yellow hairs.

Head narrowed in front and behind, strongly rounded from eye to base, posterior angles rounded, posterior border small, slightly excised; mandibles very short,. sharply pointed; clypeus small, flat on disc, anterior border rounded, with a slightly raised narrow margin, sinuate at sides; eyes large, round, very prominent, situated in front of middle of sides of head; ocelli fairly large, situated on occiput of head; antennm long, filiform, 13-jointed; 'scape very short, not as long as second joint of funiculus; first joint small, short, globular, broader than the following joints, last joint a little longer than the one preceding it. Thorax short, oval, narrowed in front and behind, convex on disc; pronotum narrow, transverse, furnished with a short neck; mayrian furrows very distinct, dividing the mesonotum into two lateral lobes; praescutellum narrow, transverse, depressed, with widely separated, short, narrow longitudinal striae, the spaces between the striae deeply hollowed out; scutellum broad oval, very convex and prominent, somewhat rugosely and closely punctured; metanotum very narrow, transverse, slightly raised; epinotum finely coriaceously punctured, armed with a small tooth or tubercle on each side at angle between dorsal surface and declivity, which is somewhat rounded, declivity slightly shorter than dorsal surface. Petiole rather long, narrow, slightly narrowed to base and before margins of apex, in profile very slightly raised in middle; post-petiole considerably shorter, very slightly broader and a little higher than petiole, slightly narrowed anteriorly and posteriorly, convex on disc; gaster long oval, concave beneath, broadest at apex of first segment, which is as long as the remaining segments when extended. Genitalia enclosed in gaster.

Legs rather long and slender; no spurs to tibiae present; claws very small. Wings slightly dusky; veins and pterostigma light brown, one discoidal cell, one long cubital cell and closed radial cell, about as long, but narrower than cubital cell, present.

Long. 4, mm.

Original type material cannot be located. This consisted of three males from Maffin Bay, Dutch New Guinea, August, 1944. E. S. Ross Coll.

References

• Bolton, B. 2003: Synopsis and classification of Formicidae. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute, 71: 1–370.
• 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. 1947e. Some new ants from New Guinea. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 11(14): 183-197. (page 188, 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.