Meranoplus excavatus

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Australasian Region: Australia.

Nomenclature

 * . Meranoplus excavatus Clark, 1938: 367, fig. 6 (w.) AUSTRALIA (South Australia: Reevesby I.).
 * Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated, “several”).
 * Type-locality: Australia: Reevesby I. (J. Clark).
 * Type-depository: ANIC (1 probable syntype).
 * [Note: Taylor, 1990c: 32, comments that “the sole pin labelled “typus” in MVIC (= MVMA) has lost both specimens from its card points, its labels are identical to those of the ANIC (?)syntype”.]
 * Status as species: Taylor & Brown, 1985: 67; Taylor, 1987a: 38; Taylor, 1990c: 32; Bolton, 1995b: 251.
 * Distribution: Australia.

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

 * Clark J. 1938. The Sir Joseph Banks Islands. Reports of the McCoy Society for Field Investigation and Research. Part 10. Formicidae (Hymenoptera). Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria (n.s.)50: 356-382.
 * Taylor R. W. 1987. A checklist of the ants of Australia, New Caledonia and New Zealand (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization) Division of Entomology Report 41: 1-92.
 * Taylor R. W., and D. R. Brown. 1985. Formicoidea. Zoological Catalogue of Australia 2: 1-149.