Mesoponera ingesta

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Afrotropical Region: Chad, Democratic Republic of Congo, Mali, Sierra Leone, United Republic of Tanzania.

Nomenclature

 * . Euponera (Mesoponera) ingesta Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 82, fig. 14 (w.) DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO.
 * Type-material: 9 syntype workers.
 * Type-locality: 6 workers Democratic Republic of Congo (“Belgian Congo”): Akenge, “from stomachs of toads (Bufo funereus and polycercus)” (Lang & Chapin); other syntypes: 1 worker Niapu, “toad’s stomach (B. polycercus)” (Lang & Chapin), 1 worker Faradje (Lang & Chapin), 1 worker Lubila (Lang & Chapin).
 * Type-depository: MCZC.
 * Combination in Pachycondyla: Brown, in Bolton, 1995b: 306;
 * combination in Mesoponera: Schmidt, C.A. & Shattuck, 2014: 110.
 * Status as species: Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 776; Santschi, 1930a: 54; Santschi, 1935b: 260 (in key); Weber, 1943c: 298; Bolton, 1995b: 306.
 * Distribution: Democratic Republic of Congo, South Sudan.

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

 * Santschi F. 1930. Description de Formicides éthiopiens nouveaux ou peu connus. V. Bulletin et Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 70: 49-77.
 * 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