Mesoponera

Mesoponera
M. melanaria worker
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Ponerinae
Tribe: Ponerini
Genus: Mesoponera
Emery, 1900
Type species
Ponera melanaria
Emery, 1893
Diversity[1]
20 species
Synonyms

Xiphopelta Forel, 1913

Mesoponera is an Old World genus of ants in the subfamily Ponerinae. It is found in the tropics, from Sub-Saharan Africa to Australia.[2]

Species

  • Mesoponera ambigua (André, 1890)
  • Mesoponera australis (Forel, 1900)
  • Mesoponera caffraria (Smith, 1858)
  • Mesoponera elisae (Forel, 1891)
  • Mesoponera escherichi (Forel, 1910)
  • Mesoponera flavopilosa (Weber, 1942)
  • Mesoponera ingesta (Wheeler, 1922)
  • Mesoponera manni (Viehmeyer, 1924)
  • Mesoponera melanaria (Emery, 1893)
  • Mesoponera nimba (Bernard, 1953)
  • Mesoponera novemdentata (Bernard, 1953)
  • Mesoponera papuana (Viehmeyer, 1914)
  • Mesoponera picea (Bernard, 1953)
  • Mesoponera rubra (Smith, 1857)
  • Mesoponera scolopax (Emery, 1899)
  • Mesoponera senegalensis (Santschi, 1914)
  • Mesoponera subiridescens (Wheeler, 1922)
  • Mesoponera testacea (Bernard, 1953)
  • Mesoponera villiersi (Bernard, 1953)
  • Mesoponera weberi (Bernard, 1953)

References

  1. Bolton, B. (2015). "Mesoponera". AntCat. Retrieved 9 January 2015.
  2. Schmidt, C. A.; Shattuck, S. O. (2014). "The Higher Classification of the Ant Subfamily Ponerinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with a Review of Ponerine Ecology and Behavior". Zootaxa 3817 (1): 1–242. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3817.1.1. PMID 24943802.


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