Mesoponera

This genus is not in use as it is currently considered to be a junior synonym of Pachycondyla.

Nomenclature

 * MESOPONERA [junior synonym of Pachycondyla]
 * Mesoponera Emery, 1900d: 668 [as subgenus of Euponera]. Type-species: Ponera melanaria, by monotypy.
 * [Mesoponera also described as new by Emery, 1901a: 43. Type-species not Ponera caffraria, unjustified subsequent designation by Emery, 1901a: 43, repeated by Emery, 1911d: 81, Wheeler, W.M. 1911f: 167, Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 775, Donisthorpe, 1943g: 661, Wilson, 1958d: 349; Kempf, 1972a: 141, Bolton, 1973a: 338 and Taylor & Brown, D.R. 1985: 35.]
 * Mesoponera raised to genus: Bingham, 1903: 99.
 * Mesoponera subgenus of Euponera: Wheeler, W.M. 1910g: 135; Emery, 1911d: 80; Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 649; Borgmeier, 1923: 71.
 * Mesoponera revived status as genus: Wilson, 1958d: 349.
 * Mesoponera senior synonym of Xiphopelta: Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 775.
 * Mesoponera junior synonym of Pachycondyla: Brown, in Bolton, 1994: 164.