Mesoponera ingesta

Mesoponera ingesta
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Ponerinae
Tribe:	Ponerini
Genus:	Mesoponera
Species:	M. ingesta
Binomial name
	Mesoponera ingesta; (Wheeler, W.M., 1922) Specimen Labels

Identification

Keys including this Species

Key to Afrotropical Mesoponera

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: 3.73503° to -19.03298889°.


North Temperate	North Subtropical	Tropical	South Subtropical	South Temperate

Source: AntMaps

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Afrotropical Region: Chad, Democratic Republic of Congo (type locality), Mali, Sierra Leone, United Republic of Tanzania.

Distribution based on AntMaps

Distribution based on AntWeb specimens

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Countries Occupied

Number of countries occupied by this species based on AntWiki Regional Taxon Lists. In general, fewer countries occupied indicates a narrower range, while more countries indicates a more widespread species.

Estimated Abundance

Relative abundance based on number of AntMaps records per species (this species within the purple bar). Fewer records (to the left) indicates a less abundant/encountered species while more records (to the right) indicates more abundant/encountered species.

Biology

Castes

Nomenclature

The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.

ingesta. Euponera (Mesoponera) ingesta Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 82, fig. 14 (w.) DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO.
- 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-depository: MCZC.
- Combination in Pachycondyla: Brown, in Bolton, 1995b: 306;
- combination in Mesoponera: Schmidt, C.A. & Shattuck, 2014: 110.
- Status as species: Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 776; Santschi, 1930a: 54; Santschi, 1935b: 260 (in key); Weber, 1943c: 298; Bolton, 1995b: 306.
- Distribution: Democratic Republic of Congo, South Sudan.

Description

References

Brown, W. L., Jr. 1995a. [Untitled. Taxonomic changes in Pachycondyla attributed to Brown.] Pp. 302-311 in: Bolton, B. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 306, Combination in Pachycondyla)
Esteves, F.A., Fisher, B.L. 2021. Corrieopone nouragues gen. nov., sp. nov., a new Ponerinae from French Guiana (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). ZooKeys 1074, 83–173 (doi:10.3897/zookeys.1074.75551).
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, 1–242 (doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3817.1.1).
Wheeler, W. M. 1922b. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. A contribution to the myrmecology of Africa. II. The ants collected by the American Museum Congo Expedition. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 45: 39-269 (page 82, fig. 14 worker described)

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

Santschi F. 1930. Description de Formicides éthiopiens nouveaux ou peu connus. V. Bulletin et Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 70: 49-77.
Weber N. A. 1943. The ants of the Imatong Mountains, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 93: 263-389.
Wheeler W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. A contribution to the myrmecology of Africa. II. The ants collected by the American Museum Congo Expedition. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 45: 39-269.
Wheeler W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. A contribution to the myrmecology of Africa. VIII. A synonymic list of the ants of the Ethiopian region. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 45: 711-1004