The Ants of Africa
Genus Meranoplus
Meranoplus glaber Arnold

Meranoplus glaber Arnold

return to key {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type location Zimbabwe (Meranoplus spininodis var. glaber n. v., Arnold, 1926: 285, illustrated, workers); worker only described (see Bolton, 1995) .

{Meranoplus glaber}Arnold's (1926) description is at {original description}. Bolton's modern description (1981a) is at {original description}

{Meranoplus glaber}WORKER - TL 2.3-3.1 mm (Bolton, 1981a: 49, illustrated, lateral alitrunk and pedicel, petiole and promesonotal shield).

{Meranoplus clypeatus}The photomontage of a syntype worker is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0902021.

{Meranoplus clypeatus}The photomontage of a worker from South Africa is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0235911.
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