Mesoponera
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]
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Genus: | Mesoponera Emery, 1900 |
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Ponera melanaria Emery, 1893 | |
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20 species | |
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Xiphopelta Forel, 1913 |
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)
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References
- Bolton, B. (2015). "Mesoponera". AntCat. Retrieved 9 January 2015.
- 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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