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An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World
by Barry Bolton
Catalog
›
Formicidae
›
Ponerinae
›
Ponerini
›
Mesoponera
›
Mesoponera ingesta
Mesoponera
ingesta
(Wheeler, 1922)
valid
Euponera (Mesoponera) ingesta
Wheeler, 1922
: 82, fig. 14 (w.) DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO. Afrotropic.
Primary type information:
Type-material: 9 syntype workers. Type-locality: 6 workers Democratic Republic of Congo (“Belgian Congo”): Akenge, “from stomachs of toads (
Bufo funereus
and
polycercus
)” (
Lang & Chapin
); other syntypes: 1 worker Niapu, “toad’s stomach (
B. polycercus
)” (
Lang & Chapin
), 1 worker Faradje (
Lang & Chapin
), 1 worker Lubila (
Lang & Chapin
). Type-depositories:
MCZC
,
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
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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†fossil
valid
synonym
unidentifiable/excluded from Formicidae
homonym
unavailable/nomen nudum
obsolete combination
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Mesoponera
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