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Mesoponera nimba
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Ponerinae |
| Tribe: | Ponerini |
| Genus: | Mesoponera |
| Species: | M. nimba |
| Binomial name | |
| Mesoponera nimba (Bernard, 1953)
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| Synonyms | |
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Identification
Keys including this Species
Distribution
Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Afrotropical Region: Guinea (type locality).
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. |
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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. |
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Biology
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- nimba. Euponera (Mesoponera) nimba Bernard, 1953b: 190, fig. 2a (w.q.) GUINEA.
- Type-material: 1 syntype worker, 1 syntype queen.
- Type-locality: worker Guinea: (Nimba) Camp IV, 1000 m., 2.vi.1942 (Lamotte); queen without locality data.
- Type-depository: MNHN.
- Combination in Pachycondyla: Brown, in Bolton, 1995b: 307;
- combination in Mesoponera: Schmidt, C.A. & Shattuck, 2014: 111.
- Status as species: Bolton, 1995b: 307.
- Senior synonym of neonimba Özdikmen, 2010c: 996 (unnecessary replacement name; unpublished).
- Distribution: Guinea.
- neonimba. Pachycondyla neonimba Özdikmen, 2010c: 996.
- Unnecessary replacement name for Euponera nimba Bernard, 1953b: 190.
- Junior synonymy of nimba Bernard, 1953b: 190 (unpublished).