Meranoplus dimidiatus

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Meranoplus dimidiatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Tribe: Crematogastrini
Genus: Meranoplus
Species: M. dimidiatus
Binomial name
Meranoplus dimidiatus
Smith, F., 1867

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Specimen Labels

Photo Gallery

  • A Meranoplus dimidiatus worker found near Pannawonica, Western Australia. Photo by Farhan Bokhari, 13 July 2012.
  • A Meranoplus dimidiatus worker found near Pannawonica, Western Australia. Photo by Farhan Bokhari, 13 July 2012.

Identification

Keys including this Species

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: -20.8° to -23.3653°.

 
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Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Australasian Region: Australia (type locality).

Distribution based on AntMaps

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Distribution based on AntWeb specimens

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Countries Occupied

Number of countries occupied by this species based on AntWiki Regional Taxon Lists. In general, fewer countries occupied indicates a narrower range, while more countries indicates a more widespread species.
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Estimated Abundance

Relative abundance based on number of AntMaps records per species (this species within the purple bar). Fewer records (to the left) indicates a less abundant/encountered species while more records (to the right) indicates more abundant/encountered species.
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Biology

Castes

Worker

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Nomenclature

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

  • dimidiatus. Meranoplus dimidiatus Smith, F. 1867: 527, pl. 26, fig. 8 (w.) AUSTRALIA (Western Australia).
    • Type-material: holotype worker.
    • Type-locality: Australia: Champion Bay (F.H. Du Boulay).
    • Type-depository: BMNH.
    • Wheeler, G.C. & Wheeler, J. 1973a: 37 (l.).
    • Status as species: Mayr, 1886c: 363; Dalla Torre, 1893: 136; Emery, 1924d: 229; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 66; Taylor, 1987a: 38; Taylor, 1990c: 36 (redescription); Bolton, 1995b: 251; Taylor, 2006: 27; Heterick, 2009: 151.
    • Distribution: Australia.

Type Material

Description

References

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

  • Heterick B. E. 2009. A guide to the ants of south-western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement 76: 1-206. 
  • Heterick B. E., B. Durrant, and N. R. Gunawardene. 2010. The ant fauna of the Pilbara Bioregion, Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement 78: 157-167.
  • Taylor R. W. 2006. Ants of the genus Meranoplus F. Smith, 1853 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): three new species and others from northeastern Australian rainforests. Myrmecologische Nachrichten 8: 21-29.