Abundance: 0.00 to 9.47% (median 0.97%)
Latitudinal range: -38.3° to 23.0°Habitats: desert/xeric shrubland (2), temperate broadleaf/mixed forest (2), temperate savanna (2), tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest (8), tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest (6), tropical/subtropical savanna (6)
Found in 26 samples
Australia: Glen Osmond (normal), Glen Osmond (previously inverted), Dwellingup (Amphion unburnt jarrah), Durokoppin Reserve (heath), Bowen Basin Site A, Deans Heath site 6, Purnululu National Park (spinifex), La Trobe University Bundoora (test tube traps), La Trobe University Bundoora (cup traps), Dwellingup (Plavins burnt jarrah), Mitchell Falls (laterite), Eneabba (1980, control C1)
Cameroon: Nko'ondo and Djazeng
China: Lüchun County
Ghana: Southern Ghana
India: Sharavathi River Basin (deciduous forest), Great Indian Bustard Wildlife Sanctuary (undisturbed, March 2010, pitfall traps), Sharavathi River Basin (Acacia plantations), Sharavathi River Basin (scrub jungles), Sharavathi River Basin (evergreen forests)
Indonesia: Bogor Botanic Garden
Malaysia: Perak Integrated Timber Complex (2008), Perak Integrated Timber Complex (2009)
South Africa: Tussen-die-Riviere Game Farm (Acacia karoo), Soutpansberg Mountain Range (woodland)
Thailand: Sri Nan National Park (winter)
See also Meranoplus 'bicolor', Meranoplus berrimah, Meranoplus clypeatus, Meranoplus glaber, Meranoplus inermis, Meranoplus laeviventris, Meranoplus magrettii, Meranoplus malaysianus, Meranoplus mucronatus, Meranoplus pubescens, Meranoplus sp., Meranoplus sp. 1, Meranoplus sp. 12, Meranoplus sp. 13, Meranoplus sp. 13 (aureolus complex), Meranoplus sp. 3 of AMK, Meranoplus sp. A, Meranoplus sp. D76, Meranoplus sp. D77, Meranoplus sp. D78, Meranoplus sp. E, Meranoplus sp. E (hirsutus group), Meranoplus sp. F (Group C), Meranoplus sp. G, Meranoplus sp. G (excavatus group), Meranoplus sp. I (excavatus group), Meranoplus sp. J, Meranoplus sp. J (puryi group), Meranoplus sp. JD 423, Meranoplus sp. K (Group C), Meranoplus sp. Q (puryi group), Meranoplus spininodis