Meranoplus niger

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Indo-Australian Region: New Guinea.

Nomenclature

 * . 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.

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.