Mesoponera
| Mesoponera | |
|---|---|
| Mesoponera melanaria worker | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Ponerinae |
| Tribe: | Ponerini |
| Alliance: | Odontomachus genus group |
| Genus: | Mesoponera Emery, 1900 |
| Type species | |
| Ponera melanaria Emery, 1893
| |
| Diversity[1] | |
| 6 species | |
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
- Mesoponera australis (Forel, 1900)
- Mesoponera javana (Forel, 1905)
- Mesoponera manni (Viehmeyer, 1924)
- Mesoponera melanaria (Emery, 1893)
- Mesoponera papuana (Viehmeyer, 1914)
- Mesoponera rubra (Smith, 1857)
References
- ^ Bolton, B. (2025). "Mesoponera". AntCat. Retrieved 30 December 2025.
- ^ 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.