Meranoplus glaber

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Afrotropical Region: Botswana, Mozambique, United Republic of Tanzania, Zimbabwe.

Nomenclature

 * . Meranoplus spininodis var. glaber Arnold, 1926: 285, fig. 82, 2 (w.) ZIMBABWE.
 * Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated).
 * Type-localities: Zimbabwe (“Rhodesia”): Bulawayo, Hillside, 13.v.1917 (G. Arnold), Zimbabwe: Sawmills, Umgusa River, 30.i.1918 and 1.ii.1918 (G. Arnold).
 * Type-depositories: BMNH, SAMC.
 * Status as species: Bolton, 1981a: 49 (redescription); Bolton, 1995b: 251.
 * Distribution: Botswana, Zimbabwe.

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

 * 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.
 * IZIKO South Africa Museum Collection
 * Koch F., and K. Vohland. 2004. Ants along a southern African transect - a basis for biodiversity change monitoring (Insecta, Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Zoosystematics and Evolution 80(2): 261-273.