Mesoponera subiridescens

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Afrotropical Region: Cameroun, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Mozambique, Uganda, United Republic of Tanzania.

Nomenclature

 * . Euponera (Mesoponera) subiridescens Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 83, fig. 15 (w.) DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO.
 * Type-material: 6 syntype workers.
 * Type-locality: 4 workers Democratic Republic of Congo (“Belgian Congo”): Akenge, stomach of Bufo polycercus (Lang & Chapin); other syntypes: 1 worker Medje, stomach of Bufo superciliaris (Lang & Chapin), 1 worker Ngayu, stomach of Bufo tuberosus (Lang & Chapin).
 * Type-depository: MCZC.
 * [Misspelled as subiridens by Santschi, 1939b: 237.]
 * Combination in Pachycondyla: Brown, in Bolton, 1995b: 310;
 * combination in Mesoponera: Schmidt, C.A. & Shattuck, 2014: 111.
 * Status as species: Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 777; Santschi, 1935b: 260 (in key); Santschi, 1939b: 237; Menozzi, 1942: 166; Weber, 1943c: 299; Eidmann, 1944: 434; Bolton, 1995b: 310; Hita Garcia, et al. 2013: 221.
 * Distribution: Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Kenya, South Sudan, Uganda, Zimbabwe.

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

 * Eidmann H. 1944. Die Ameisenfauna von Fernando Poo. 27. Beitrag zu den Ergebnissen der Westafrika-Expedition. Zool. Jahrb. Abt. Syst. Ökol. Geogr. Tiere 76: 413-490.
 * IZIKO South Africa Museum Collection
 * Menozzi C. 1942. Formiche dell'isola Fernando Poo e del territorio del Rio Muni (Guinea Spagnola). 24. Beitrag zu den wissenschaftlichen Ergebnissen der Forschungsreise H. Eidmann nach Spanisch-Guinea 1939 bis 1940. Zoologischer Anzeiger 140: 164-182.
 * Nsengimana V., K. A. Beth, F. Frederic, K. M. M. Lombart, D. Wouter, and N. Donat. 2018. Use of soil and litter ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) as biological indicators of soil quality under different land uses in Southern Rwanda. Environmental Entomology 47(6): 1394-1401.
 * Ross S. R. P. J., F. Hita Garcia, G. Fischer, and M. K. Peters. 2018. Selective logging intensity in an East African rain forest predicts reductions in ant diversity. Biotropica 1-11.
 * 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
 * Yamagiwa J., N. Mwanza, T. Yumoto, and T. Maruhasi. 1991. Ant eating by Eastern lowland Gorilla. Primates 32(2): 247-253.