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Genus: Mesoponera   Emery, 1900 


Classification:

Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2017)

20 species, 7 subspecies

Mesoponera Emery, 1900: 668 [as subgenus of Euponera]. Type-species: Ponera melanaria, by monotypy. AntCat AntWiki

Taxonomic history

[Mesoponera also described as new by Emery, 1901b PDF: 43. Type-species not Ponera caffraria, unjustified subsequent designation by Emery, 1901b PDF: 43, repeated by Emery, 1911e PDF: 81, Wheeler, 1911g PDF: 167, Wheeler, 1922: 775, Donisthorpe, 1943g: 661, Wilson, 1958g PDF: 349; Kempf, 1972b PDF: 141, Bolton, 1973a PDF: 338; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 35.].
Mesoponera in Pachycondylinae, Pachycondylini: Ashmead, 1905c PDF: 382.
Mesoponera in Ponerinae, Ponerini: Emery, 1911e PDF: 80; all subsequent authors.
Mesoponera as subgenus of Euponera: Emery, 1900: 668; Wheeler, 1910a: 135; Emery, 1911e PDF: 80; Arnold, 1915: 64; Forel, 1917 PDF: 237; Gallardo, 1918c PDF: 65; Wheeler, 1922: 649; Borgmeier, 1923: 71; Donisthorpe, 1943g: 661; Chapman & Capco, 1951 PDF: 64; Bernard, 1953b PDF: 190.
Mesoponera as genus: Bingham, 1903 PDF: 99; Ashmead, 1905c PDF: 382; Wilson, 1958g PDF: 349; Kempf, 1972b PDF: 141; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 34; Taylor, 1987a PDF: 39; Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 78.
Mesoponera as junior synonym of Pachycondyla: Brown, 1973b PDF: 182 [provisional]; Snelling, 1981: 389; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 11; Brown, in Bolton, 1994: 164; Bolton, 2003 PDF: 167.
Mesoponera revived from synonymy: Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014 PDF, 2014: 107.
Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014 PDF: 107 (diagnosis, synoptic description, distribution, ecology and behavior, phylogenetic and taxonomic considerations).

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Overview:

M. melanaria's nest kerala india

Distribution:

(based on species list records)   Genus is native to: Afrotropical, Australasia, Indomalaya, Malagasy, Palearctic bioregions.

Afrotropical Region: Africa, Angola, Botswana, Bundibugyo, Cameroon, Central, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eastern, Eastern Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Free State, Gabon, Gauteng, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kabarole, Kakamega, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Kwilu, Lindi, Mali, Middle Africa, Morogoro, Mozambique, Mtwara, Ogooué-Maritime, Pwani, Sangha-Mbaéré, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Southern Africa, Sudan, Tanga, Tanzania, Uganda, Western Africa, Western Cape, Woleu-Ntem, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Australasia Region: Australia, Australia and New Zealand, East Sepik, Gulf, New South Wales, Oceania, Papua, Papua New Guinea, Queensland, Solomon Islands
Indomalaya Region: Asia, Borneo, India, Indonesia, Kerala, Malaysia, Sabah, Selangor, Singapore, South-Eastern Asia, Southern Asia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam
Malagasy Region: Anjouan, Antananarivo, Antsiranana, Comoros, Fianarantsoa, Grande Comore, Madagascar, Mahajanga, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mohéli, Seychelles, Toamasina, Toliara
Nearctic Region: United States
Oceania Region: Melanesia
Palearctic Region: Al Bahah, China, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Western Asia, Yemen


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