Meranoplus nanus

Identification
The propodeum in profile nearly vertical, armed at about the mid-depth with a pair of short, stout spines.

Mandibles striate, armed with four teeth. Anterior clypeal margin with a narrow translucent apron and with a longitudinal carina on each side of the median portion which runs forwards to the apron. Anterior half of clypeus usually shallowly concave between these carinae.

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Afrotropical Region: Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, Mozambique, Uganda, United Republic of Tanzania.

Nomenclature

 * . Meranoplus nanus André, 1892a: 55 (w.) GABON.
 * Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated).
 * Type-locality: Gabon: (no further data) (Mocquerys).
 * Type-depository: MNHN.
 * Santschi, 1914d: 351 (q.).
 * Status as species: Dalla Torre, 1893: 137; Santschi, 1914d: 351; Arnold, 1917: 365; Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 888; Emery, 1924d: 227; Bolton, 1981a: 53 (redescription); Bolton, 1995b: 251.
 * Distribution: Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, Tanzania.

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

 * André E. 1892. Matériaux myrmécologiques. Rev. Entomol. (Caen) 11: 45-56.
 * Bernard F. 1953. La réserve naturelle intégrale du Mt Nimba. XI. Hyménoptères Formicidae. Mémoires de l'Institut Français d'Afrique Noire 19: 165-270.
 * 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.
 * Medler J. T. 1980: Insects of Nigeria - Check list and bibliography. Mem. Amer. Ent. Inst. 30: i-vii, 1-919.
 * Santschi F. 1914. Formicides de l'Afrique occidentale et australe du voyage de Mr. le Professeur F. Silvestri. Bollettino del Laboratorio di Zoologia Generale e Agraria della Reale Scuola Superiore d'Agricoltura. Portici 8: 309-385.
 * Taylor B. 1979. Ants of the Nigerian Forest Zone (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). III. Myrmicinae (Cardiocondylini to Meranoplini). Cocoa Research Institute of Nigeria Research Bulletin 6: 1-65.
 * Weber N. A. 1943. The ants of the Imatong Mountains, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 93: 263-389.
 * 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