Meranoplus mucronatus Smith, 1857

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

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.