Mesoponera elisae

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Afrotropical Region: South Africa, United Republic of Tanzania. Malagasy Region: Madagascar.

Nomenclature

 * . Ponera elisae Forel, 1891b: 221, pl. 5, fig. 10 (w.) MADAGASCAR.
 * Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated).
 * Type-locality: Madagascar: Forêt d’Andrangoloaka (Sikora).
 * Type-depository: MHNG.
 * [Misspelled as elizae by Arnold, 1915: 70.]
 * Combination in Euponera (Mesoponera): Emery, 1901a: 46;
 * combination in E. (Xiphopelta): Forel, 1913j: 206;
 * combination in Pachycondyla: Brown, in Bolton, 1995b: 305;
 * combination in Mesoponera: Schmidt, C.A. & Shattuck, 2014: 110.
 * Status as species: Forel, 1892k: 520; Dalla Torre, 1893: 39; Emery, 1911d: 81; Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 1008; Santschi, 1935b: 260 (in key); Bernard, 1953b: 192 (in key); Bolton, 1995b: 305.
 * Distribution: Madagascar.
 * Current subspecies: nominal plus divaricata, redbankensis, rotundata.

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

 * Emery C. 1911. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Ponerinae. Genera Insectorum 118: 1-125.
 * Fisher B. L. 1997. Biogeography and ecology of the ant fauna of Madagascar (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of Natural History 31: 269-302.
 * Fisher B. L. 2003. Formicidae, ants. Pp. 811-819 in: Goodman, S. M.; Benstead, J. P. (eds.) 2003. The natural history of Madagascar. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, xxi + 1709 pp.
 * Forel A. 1892. Nouvelles espèces de Formicides de Madagascar (récoltées par M. Sikora). Première série. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique. 36: 516-535.
 * Wheeler W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. A contribution to the myrmecology of Africa. IX. A synonymic list of the ants of the Malagasy region. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 45: 1005-1055