Meranoplus bicolor ( Guérin-Méneville, 1844 )

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 : 83-84

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.20362/am.015006
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15474309
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B68783-3107-FFF6-FD4B-7A9CFEF3FD37
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Meranoplus bicolor ( Guérin-Méneville, 1844 )
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Meranoplus bicolor ( Guérin-Méneville, 1844) View in CoL

Material examined. Botany Dept. Garden ( NUS), 1 Nov 1990, H.K. Lua leg., ZRC _ ENT00000260 View Materials ; Changi sand dunes, 21 Nov 1982, D.H. Murphy leg., ZRC _ HYM_0000696; Commonwealth Avenue West , 6 Apr 2006, H.K. Lua leg., LHK 461, ZRC _ HYM_0000187; I-cube building ( NUS), 1.29347, 103.77633, 24 Jun-1 Jul 2015, M.S. Foo & W. Wang leg., malaise trap, NUS0054, ZRC _ BDP0044222 View Materials GoogleMaps ; University Town ( NUS), 1.30622, 103.77458, Apr-May 2015, M.S. Foo & W. Wang leg., malaise trap, ZRC GoogleMaps _ BDP multiple; Kranji Road , 1.42638, 103.75413, 1-10 Nov 2016, G.W. Yong leg., ZRC GoogleMaps _ HYM_0001274-1278; Pulau Ubin , 1.40308, 103.96924, 4 Dec 2016, G.W. Yong & M.K.L. Wong leg., ZRC GoogleMaps _ HYM_0001073; Queen’s Crescent , 14 Mar 2006, H.K. Lua leg., LHK 460, ZRC _ HYM_0000185; Sime Road , 14 Jul 2009, H.K. Lua leg., LHK 508, ZRC _ HYM_0000188; Temasek Polytechnic , adjacent waste woodland, 1.34239, 103.93598, 13-15 Dec 2016, G.W. Yong leg., ZRC GoogleMaps _ HYM_0001272-1273; Tuas West Drive , 31 Mar 2007, H.K. Lua leg., LHK 466, ZRC _ HYM_0000184; Upper Peirce Reservoir , 10 Jan 2014, Sk. Yamane leg., ZRC _ HYM_0000406-407; Western Catchment , 1.40866, 103.70185, 20 Nov 2015, M.K.L. Wong leg., ZRC _ ENT00000693 View Materials GoogleMaps .

Material not physically examined. Non-types, J.K. Wetterer leg. ( JKWC) - Kallang , Riverside Park , 29 Jul 2014, vial #372; Punggol , by MRT station, 30 Jul 2014, vial #390; Bishan , 31 Jul 2014, vial #424; Tai Seng , by MRT station, 31 Jul 2014, vial #422; East Coast Park (Katong), 1 Aug 2014, vial #442; Pasir Panjang, by MRT station, 5 Aug 2014, vial #482; Singapore Botanic Gardens, 5 Aug 2014, vial #477 .

Literature. Viehmeyer (1916); Overbeck (1924); Tan & Corlett (2012); Wang et al. (2018a).

Localities. Bukit Timah Road; Changi; Commonwealth Avenue West; East Coast Park (Katong part); Kranji Road; National University of Singapore campus (multiple sites); Pasir Panjang; Pulau Ubin; Punggol; Queen’s Crescent; Riverside Park (Kallang); Sime Road; Singapore Botanic Gardens; Tai Seng; Temasek Polytechnic; Tuas West Drive; Upper Peirce Reservoir; Western Catchment.

Habitat/Ecology. This species was commonly found in young secondary forests in Singapore, also in recreational parks and other cultivated areas in urban or semi-urban settings, and grasslands. Individuals have also been collected from disturbed and waste woodland secondary forests; one occurrence reported in marshland. This species is known to nest in soil and forage mostly on the ground, though individuals have been collected via malaise traps and sweep netting of vegetation. One ground nest was described as forming ‘narrow passages in loamy soil which go deep below the surface.’