Mesoponera ingesta

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Mesoponera ingesta (Wheeler, 1922) valid

Euponera (Mesoponera) ingesta Wheeler, 1922: 82, fig. 14 (w.) DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: 9 syntype workers. Primary type localities: 6 workers Democratic Republic of the Congo (“Belgian Congo”): Akenge, “from stomachs of toads (Bufo funereus and polycercus)” (H.O. Lang) (invalid restriction of type locality by Wheeler, 1922: 776; no lectotype designated), 1 worker Democratic Republic of the Congo: Niapu, “toad’s stomach (B. polycercus)” (H.O. Lang), 1 worker Democratic Republic of the Congo: Faradje (H.O. Lang), 1 worker Democratic Republic of the Congo: Lubila (H.O. Lang). Primary type depositories: MCZC, NHMB. Type notes: Baroni Urbani, 1973b: 135, cites 1 worker syntype in NHMB.

Combination in Pachycondyla: Brown, 1995a: 306.
Combination in Mesoponera: Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014: 110.
Status as species: Wheeler, 1922: 776; Santschi, 1930a: 54; Santschi, 1935b: 260 (in key); Weber, 1943d: 298; Bolton, 1995b: 306.

Obsolete combinations

Euponera ingesta

Citations

Baroni Urbani, C. 1973b. Katalog der Typen von Formicidae (Hymenoptera) der Sammlung des Naturhistorischen Museums Basel. Mitteilungen der Entomologischen Gesellschaft Basel (n.s.)23:122-152.
Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Brown, W. L., Jr. 1995a. [Untitled. Taxonomic changes in Pachycondyla and Neoponera attributed to Brown.]. Pp. 302-311 in: Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Santschi, F. 1930a. Description de Formicides éthiopiens nouveaux ou peu connus. V. Bulletin et Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 70:49-77. PDF
Santschi, F. 1935b. Hymenoptera. I. Formicidae. Mission Scientifique de l'Omo 2:255-277.
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. 10.11646/zootaxa.3817.1.1 PDF
Weber, N. A. 1943d. The ants of the Imatong Mountains, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 93:263-389. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.

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