Meranoplus puryi

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Australasian Region: Australia.

Nomenclature

 * . Meranoplus puryi Forel, 1902h: 456 (w.) AUSTRALIA (Victoria).
 * Type-material: lectotype worker (by designation of Schödl, 2004: 354), 2 paralectotype workers.
 * Type-locality: lectotype Australia: Victoria, Yarra Dist. (no collector’s name); paralectotypes with same data.
 * Type-depositories: MHNG (lectotype); ANIC, MHNG (paralectotypes).
 * Status as species: Emery, 1924d: 229; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 68; Taylor, 1987a: 39; Taylor, 1990c: 39; Bolton, 1995b: 251; Schödl, 2004: 354 (redescription).
 * Distribution: Australia.

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

 * Schödl S. 2004. On the taxonomy of Meranoplus puryi Forel, 1902 and Meranoplus puryi curvispina Forel, 1910 (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien. B, Botanik, Zoologie 105: 349-360.
 * 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. 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.