Meranoplus peringueyi

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Afrotropical Region: Lesotho, South Africa.

Nomenclature

 * . Meranoplus peringueyi Emery, 1886: 365, pl. 17, fig. 12 (w.) SOUTH AFRICA.
 * Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated).
 * Type-locality: South Africa: Cape of Good Hope (L. Peringuey).
 * Type-depositories: MHNG, MRAC, MSNG, NHMB.
 * [Misspelled as peringuei by Forel, 1913a: 116.]
 * Status as species: Dalla Torre, 1893: 137; Forel, 1913a: 116; Arnold, 1917: 368; Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 888; Emery, 1924d: 227; Bolton, 1981a: 56 (redescription); Bolton, 1995b: 251.
 * Senior synonym of excisus: Bolton, 1981a: 56; Bolton, 1995b: 251.
 * Distribution: Lesotho, South Africa.
 * excisus. Meranoplus excisus Arnold, 1914: 29, fig. 9 (w.) SOUTH AFRICA.
 * Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated).
 * Type-locality: South Africa: Natal, Estcourt (R.C. Wroughton).
 * Type-depositories: BMNH, SAMC.
 * Status as species: Arnold, 1917: 367; Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 888; Emery, 1924d: 227.
 * Junior synonym of peringueyi: Bolton, 1981a: 56; Bolton, 1995b: 251.

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

 * Arnold G. 1917. A monograph of the Formicidae of South Africa. Part III. Myrmicinae. Annals of the South African Museum. 14: 271-402.
 * Bolton B. 1981. A revision of the ant genera Meranoplus F. Smith, Dicroaspis Emery and Calyptomyrmex Emery (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Ethiopian zoogeographical region. Bull. Br. Mus. (Nat. Hist.) Entomol. 42: 43-81.
 * Dean, W. R. J. and Bond, W. J. 1990. Evidence for Rapid Faunal Changes on Islands in a Man-Made Lake. Oecologia. 83:388-391.
 * Forel A. 1913. Fourmis de Rhodesia, etc. récoltées par M. G. Arnold, le Dr. H. Brauns et K. Fikendey. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 57: 108-147.
 * IZIKO South Africa Museum Collection
 * Koen J. H., and W. Breytenbach. 1988. Ant species richness of fynbos and forest ecosystems in the Southern Cape. South Afr. Tydskr. Dierk. 23(3): 184-188.
 * Kotze D. J., and M. J. Samways. 2001. No general edge effects for invertebrates at Afromontane forest/grassland ecotones. Biodiversity and Conservation 10: 443466.
 * Kotze D. J., and M. J. Samways. Invertebrate conservation at the interface between the grassland matrix and natural Afromontane forest fragments. 1999. Biodiversity and Conservation 8: 1339-1363.
 * Wheeler W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. A contribution to the myrmecology of Africa. VIII. A synonymic list of the ants of the Ethiopian region. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 45: 711-1004
 * van Hamburg H., A. N. Andersen, W. J. Meyer, and H. G. Robertson. 2004. Ant community development on rehabilitated ash dams in the South African highveld. Restoration Ecology 12(4): 552-558.