Mesoponera | |
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Mesoponera melanaria worker | |
Scientific classification | |
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
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Diversity[1] | |
20 species | |
Synonyms | |
Xiphopelta Forel, 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]