Meranoplus excisus

Meranoplus excisus
Scientific classification (junior synonym of Meranoplus peringueyi)
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Myrmicinae
Tribe:	Crematogastrini
Genus:	Meranoplus
Species:	Meranoplus excisus Arnold, 1914

This taxon is not in use as it is currently considered to be a junior synonym of Meranoplus peringueyi.

Nomenclature

The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.

• excisus. Meranoplus excisus Arnold, 1914: 29, fig. 9 (w.) SOUTH AFRICA. Junior synonym of peringueyi: Bolton, 1981a: 56.

References

• Arnold, G. 1914. Nest-changing migrations of two species of ants. Proc. Trans. Rhod. Sci. Assoc. 13: 25-32. (page 29, fig. 9 worker described)

• Bolton, B. 1981a. 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. (page 56, Junior synonym of peringueyi)