Mesoponera

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Mesoponera
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Mesoponera melanaria worker
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Domain: Eukaryota
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

XiphopeltaForel, 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

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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.