{"title":"Two new species and a new record of the ant genus <i>Meranoplus</i> Smith, 1853 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Myrmicinae) from Thailand.","authors":"Kuntima Yodprasit, Nopparat Buddhakala, Wattanachai Tasen, Weeyawat Jaitrong","doi":"10.3897/zookeys.1210.125990","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p><i>Meranoplus</i> Smith, 1853 is distributed in the Old World tropics, from Africa, Asia, New Guinea to Australia. There are four species <i>Meranoplusbicolor</i> (Guérin-Méneville, 1844), <i>M.castaneus</i> Smith, 1857, <i>M.laeviventris</i> Emery, 1889, and <i>M.mucronatus</i> Smith, 1857 previously recorded from Thailand. In the present paper, two new species of the genus, <i>M.siamensis</i> Yodprasit & Jaitrong, <b>sp. nov.</b> and <i>M.tanomtongi</i> Yodprasit & Jaitrong, <b>sp. nov.</b>, are described based on the worker caste. Additionally, <i>M.malaysianus</i> Schödl, 1998 is recorded for the first time for Thailand. A key to the Oriental and Indo-Australian species, based on the worker caste, is provided. The new species and the new record were found to nest in soil.</p>","PeriodicalId":1,"journal":{"name":"Accounts of Chemical Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":16.4000,"publicationDate":"2024-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11369496/pdf/","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Accounts of Chemical Research","FirstCategoryId":"99","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1210.125990","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"2024/1/1 0:00:00","PubModel":"eCollection","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Meranoplus Smith, 1853 is distributed in the Old World tropics, from Africa, Asia, New Guinea to Australia. There are four species Meranoplusbicolor (Guérin-Méneville, 1844), M.castaneus Smith, 1857, M.laeviventris Emery, 1889, and M.mucronatus Smith, 1857 previously recorded from Thailand. In the present paper, two new species of the genus, M.siamensis Yodprasit & Jaitrong, sp. nov. and M.tanomtongi Yodprasit & Jaitrong, sp. nov., are described based on the worker caste. Additionally, M.malaysianus Schödl, 1998 is recorded for the first time for Thailand. A key to the Oriental and Indo-Australian species, based on the worker caste, is provided. The new species and the new record were found to nest in soil.
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