Mesoponera

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Nomenclature

 *  MESOPONERA  [Ponerinae: Ponerini]
 * 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; Wilson, 1958d: 349; Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014: 107.
 * Mesoponera subgenus of Euponera: Wheeler, W.M. 1910g: 135; Emery, 1911d: 80; Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 649; Borgmeier, 1923: 71.
 * Mesoponera senior synonym of Xiphopelta: Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 775; Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014: 107.
 * Mesoponera junior synonym of Pachycondyla: Snelling, R.R. 1981: 389; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 11; Brown, in Bolton, 1994: 164.
 * Mesoponera revived from synonymy: Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014: 107.
 * XIPHOPELTA [junior synonym of Mesoponera]
 * Xiphopelta Forel, 1913a: 108 [as subgenus of Ponera]. Type-species: Ponera (Xiphopelta) arnoldi, by monotypy.
 * Xiphopelta subgenus of Euponera: Forel, 1917: 237; Bernard, 1953b: 191.
 * Xiphopelta junior synonym of Pachycondyla: Snelling, R.R. 1981: 389; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 11; Brown, in Bolton, 1994: 164.
 * Xiphopelta junior synonym of Mesoponera: Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 775; Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014: 107.
 * [Hiphopelta: incorrect subsequent spelling by Forel, 1913a: 108.]