Mesoponera Emery, 1900 valid feminine
Mesoponera Emery, 1900: 668 [as subgenus of Euponera] Type-species: Ponera melanaria (obsolete combination of Mesoponera melanaria), by monotypy.
Junior synonyms
Obsolete classifications
Genus Mesoponera catalogues

Emery, 1901b: 46; Emery, 1911e: 80 (Euponera (Mesoponera)); Wheeler, 1922: 774 (Afrotropical Euponera (Mesoponera)); Wheeler, 1922: 1008 (Malagasy Euponera (Mesoponera)); Kempf, 1972b: 141 (Neotropical); Taylor & Brown, 1985: 34 (Australia); Taylor, 1987a: 39 (Australia, New Caledonia & New Zealand); Brandão, 1991: 356 (Neotropical Mesoponera); Bolton, 1995b: 302 (as part of Pachycondyla); Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014: 110 (species checklist); Fisher & Bolton, 2016: 316 (Afrotropical, Malagasy checklist).

Genus Mesoponera references

Emery, 1911e: 80 (Euponera (Mesoponera) diagnosis); Arnold, 1915: 64 (South Africa Euponera (Mesoponera)); Gallardo, 1918c: 66 (Argentina Mesoponera species key); Santschi, 1935b: 259 (Africa Mesoponera species key); Bernard, 1953b: 191 (Guinea Euponera (Xiphopelta) species key); Brown, 1958h: 20 (New Zealand Mesoponera); Eguchi et al., 2014: 36 (diagnosis, Vietnam synopsis); Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014: 107 (diagnosis, synoptic description, distribution, ecology and behavior, phylogenetic and taxonomic considerations); Fisher & Bolton, 2016: 315 (diagnosis); Cantone, 2017: 264 (brief male diagnosis).

Citations

Extant: 20 valid species, 6 valid subspecies

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