Meranoplus mucronatus Smith, 1857

Hamer, Matthew T., Lee, Jonathan Hon Chung, Tse, Cheung Yau Leo, Silva, Thiago S. R. & Guénard, Benoit, 2022, Remarkable diversity in a little red dot: a comprehensive checklist of known ant species in Singapore (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) with notes on ecology and taxonomy, Asian Myrmecology (e 015006) 15, pp. 1-152 : 84

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.20362/am.015006
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15474313
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scientific name	Meranoplus mucronatus Smith, 1857
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Meranoplus mucronatus Smith, 1857 View in CoL

Material examined. Mandai, 10 Sep 1980, Tay Soon Cheng leg., sugar [sic] plantation, ZRC _ ENT00047925 View Materials ; locality and collectors unknown, Oct-Nov 1988, ZRC _ ENT00028677 View Materials .

Material not physically examined. Unknown.

Literature. None. New record.

Localities. Mandai

Habitat/Ecology. This species was once found in a sugarcane plantation in Singapore.

Remarks. This species is the largest of the genus Meranoplus in the Oriental region, and can be easily distinguished from its congeners in the same region by its strikingly armed promesonotal shield. The record of M. mucronatus in Viehmeyer (1916) was of specimens from Gunong Angsi in Malaysia, not Singapore as is often mistaken.