Meranoplus (Smith, F. 1876)
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Ordo: Hymenoptera
Familia: Formicidae
Name
Meranoplus Smith, F., 1876 – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Meranoplus Smith, F., 1876, Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 9: 609-610.
Description
Female. - Length 3 lines. Opaque-black; the scape of the antennae, the base and apex of the flagellum, tips of the femora, the tibiae, the anterior tarsi, and the apical joints of the intermediate and posterior pairs, light ferruginous; the wings flavo-hyaline, the nervures pale rufo-testaceous. Head, thorax and nodes of the peduncle with rugose confluent punctures; the head longer than broad, slightly narrowed before the eyes; the posterior margin of the vertex broadly emarginate. The anterior margin of the prothorax arched; the thorax about the same length as the head, narrowed behind the insertion of the wings; the metathorax with two blunt spines. Abdomen oblong and very finely shagreened; emarginate at the base and rounded at the apex. Worker. - Only differs from the female in being rather shorter, and in the form of the thorax, as will be seen by the figure; the abdomen shorter, with the sides less parallel. Male. - Length 2 1 / 2 lines. The colour and sculpture as in the female. Head wider than the thorax, much narrowed before the eyes; the lateral angles of the posterior margin of the vertex subspinosa Thorax anteriorly arched; the mesothorax with two curved, deep, broad channels that curve inwardly and unite at the base of the scutellum; the scutellum, the spines of the metathorax, and the nodes of the peduncle of the abdomen, grooved longitudinally; the wings as in the female; the abdomen subovate, slightly emarginate at the base and pointed at the apex. (Fig. 7, #x2640;; 7 a, ♂. Pl. XI.)
Distribution
Hab. - Weenen District, Natal.
Biology and Ecology
This species was discovered by Mr. John Monkhouse Hutchinson, inhabiting the thorns of a species of acacia. Some of the specimens of the workers have the legs more or less ferruginous.
Taxon Treatment
- Smith, F.; 1876: Descriptions of new species of Cryptoceridae, belonging to the genera Cryptocerus, Meranoplus and Cataulacus., Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 9: 609-610. doi
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