Meranoplus oceanicus

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Australasian Region: Australia.

Nomenclature

 * . 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.

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.