Genus Mesoponera Emery, 1900

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• Mesoponera Emery, C. 1901. Notes sur les sous-familles des Dorylines et Ponérines (famille des Formicides). Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique (Comptes-rendus) 45: 32-54 [43] [described with subgeneric rank in Euponera Forel, 1891; raised to genus and redefined in Brown, W.L. jr 1958. A review of the ants of New Zealand (Hymenoptera). Acta Hymenopterologica 1: 1–50].

  Type species:

   Ponera caffraria Smith, 1858 by original designation.

  Secondary source:

   Brown, W.L. jr 1958. A review of the ants of New Zealand (Hymenoptera). Acta Hymenopterologica 1: 1-50.
• Xiphopelta Forel, A. 1913. Fourmis de Rhodesia, etc. récoltées par M. G. Arnold, le Dr. H. Brauns et K. Fikendey. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 57: 108–147 [108].

  Type species:

   Ponera arnoldi Xiphopelta Forel, 1913 by monotypy.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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 [107]

Introduction

Member of the Odontomachus genus group (Schmidt & Shattuck 2014).

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

General References

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 [107] (Mesoponera removed from synonymy with Pachycondyla)

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