Meranoplus parviumgulatus

Meranoplus parviumgulatus is a species of ant in the genus Meranoplus.[1] It is known from New Guinea and Papua New Guinea.

Meranoplus parviumgulatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Hymenoptera
Family:
Formicidae
Subfamily:
Myrmicinae
Tribe:
Meranoplini
Genus:
Meranoplus
Species:
M. parviumgulatus
Binomial name
Meranoplus parviumgulatus
(Donisthorpe, 1947)

Taxonomy

The species was first described by Donisthorpe (1947) as Tricytarus parviumgulatus, based on three males from New Guinea, Indonesia. He placed the new species as the type species of the monotypic genus Tricytarus, subfamily Myrmicinae.[2] The type specimens were apparently lost at some point, which made further placement within the tribe uncertain;[3] the genus was treated as incertae sedis (of uncertain placement) in Myrmicinae, incertae sedis in Formicidae, and finally tentatively placed in tribe Formicoxenini (Myrmicinae). Based on new specimens from Papua New Guinea, Boudinot (2014) synonymized Tricytarus under Meranoplus, tribe Meranoplini.[4]

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References
  1. "Species: Meranoplus parviumgulatus". antweb.org. AntWeb. Retrieved 18 August 2014.
  2. Donisthorpe, H. (1947). "Some new ants from New Guinea". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 11 (14): 183–197.
  3. Bolton, B. (2003). "Synopsis and Classification of Formicidae". Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute. 71: 254.
  4. Boudinot, B. (2014). "Rediscovery of Tricytarus Donisthorpe, 1947, a new genus-level synonym of Meranoplus F. Smith, 1853 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae)". Myrmecological News. 20: 95–100.


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