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Meranoplus doddi
| Meranoplus doddi | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
| Tribe: | Crematogastrini |
| Genus: | Meranoplus |
| Species: | M. doddi |
| Binomial name | |
| Meranoplus doddi Santschi, 1928
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This Australian species is known only from queens.
Identification
Distribution
Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Australasian Region: Australia (type locality).
Distribution based on AntMaps
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
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- doddi. Meranoplus aerolus st. doddi Santschi, 1928e: 469 (q.) AUSTRALIA (Queensland).
- [Note: aerolus is a misspelling of aureolus.]
- Type-material: lectotype queen (by designation of Taylor, 1990c: 38), 4 paralectotype queens.
- Type-locality: lectotype Australia: Queensland, Townsville, 25.v.1922 (F.P. Dodd); paralectotypes with same data.
- Type-depositories: NHMB (lectotype); ANIC, NHMB (paralectotypes).
- Subspecies of aureolus: Taylor & Brown, 1985: 66; Taylor, 1987a: 38.
- Status as species: Taylor, 1990c: 38.
- Species inquirenda, incertae sedis in Meranoplus: Taylor, 1990c: 38; Bolton, 1995b: 251.
- Distribution: Australia.
Type Material
- Meranoplus aureolus doddi Santschi, 1928: Lectotype (designated by Taylor, 1990: 38), queen, Townsville, Queensland, Australia, Naturhistorisches Museum, Basel.
- Meranoplus aureolus doddi Santschi, 1928: Paralectotype (designated by Taylor, 1990: 38), 2 queens, Townsville, Queensland, Australia, Naturhistorisches Museum, Basel.
- Meranoplus aureolus doddi Santschi, 1928: Paralectotype (designated by Taylor, 1990: 38), 1 queen, Townsville, Queensland, Australia, Australian National Insect Collection.
Taylor (1990): Four dealate syntype queens [Townsville (19/146), Qld, NHMB] are considered here not to be conspecific with available types of Meranoplus aureolus or Meranoplus linae, and I have been unable to match them with worker-associated queens. They seem unlikely to be females of any named worker-based species, but queens of most are unknown for comparison in any case. M. doddi is thus probably valid, but, except for the purposes of identifying further conspecific queens, it should be considered a species inquirenda until workers associated with queens matching the types are available for study. A lectotype and 4 paralectotypes are here designated, and a paralectotype has been donated to the ANIC by the NHMB. The types were erroneously reported to be workers by Taylor & D. R. Brown (1985).
Description
References
- Santschi, F. 1928e. Nouvelles fourmis d'Australie. Bull. Soc. Vaudoise Sci. Nat. 56: 465-483 (page 469, queen described)
- Taylor, R. W. 1990d. The nomenclature and distribution of some Australian and New Caledonian ants of the genus Meranoplus Fr. Smith (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae). Gen. Appl. Entomol. 22: 31-40 (page 38, Raised to species but species inquirenda)