• [Mesoponera also described as new by Emery, 1901b: 43.]
• [Type-species not Ponera caffraria Smith, 1858a, unjustified subsequent designation by Emery, 1901b: 43; repeated by Emery, 1911e: 81; Wheeler, 1911g: 167; Wheeler, 1922: 775; Donisthorpe, 1943g: 661; Wilson, 1958g: 349; Kempf, 1972b: 141; Bolton, 1973a: 338; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 35.]
• Mesoponera in Pachycondylinae, Pachycondylini: Ashmead, 1905c: 382.
• Mesoponera in Ponerinae, Ponerini: Emery, 1911e: 80; Forel, 1917: 237 [subtribe Pachycondylini]; subsequent authors.
• Mesoponera in Ponerinae, Ponerini, Odontomachus genus group: Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014: 107.
• Mesoponera as subgenus of Euponera: Emery, 1900: 668; Emery, 1901b: 43; Wheeler, 1910a: 135; Emery, 1911e: 80; Santschi, 1913h: 34; Arnold, 1915: 64; Forel, 1917: 237; Gallardo, 1918c: 65; Wheeler, 1922: 649; Borgmeier, 1923: 71; Donisthorpe, 1943g: 661; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 64; Bernard, 1953b: 190; Viana & Haedo Rossi, 1957: 109.
• Mesoponera as junior synonym of Pachycondyla: Brown, 1973b: 182; Snelling, 1981: 389; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 11; Brown, 1994: 164; Bolton, 1995b: 35; Tang et al., 1995: 39; Bolton, 2003: 167; MacKay & MacKay, 2010: 3.
• Mesoponera as genus: Bingham, 1903: 99; Ashmead, 1905c: 382; Wilson, 1958g: 349; Kempf, 1972b: 141; Bolton, 1973a: 338; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 34; Taylor, 1987a: 39; Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 78; Brandão, 1991: 356; Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014: 107.
• Mesoponera as senior synonym of Xiphopelta: Wheeler, 1922: 775; Bolton, 1995b: 35; Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014: 107.

Junior synonyms

• Xiphopelta Forel, 1913
  Obsolete classification(s): Euponera (Xiphopelta)

Obsolete classifications

• Euponera (Mesoponera)

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