Mesoponera elisae redbankensis

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Mesoponera elisae redbankensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Ponerinae
Tribe: Ponerini
Genus: Mesoponera
Species: M. elisae
Subspecies: M. elisae redbankensis
Trinomial name
Mesoponera elisae redbankensis
(Forel, 1913)

Identification

Keys including this Species

Distribution

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Afrotropical Region: Zimbabwe (type locality).

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Countries Occupied

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Estimated Abundance

Relative abundance based on number of AntMaps records per species (this species within the purple bar). Fewer records (to the left) indicates a less abundant/encountered species while more records (to the right) indicates more abundant/encountered species.
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Biology

Castes

Nomenclature

The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.

  • redbankensis. Ponera (Xiphopelta) arnoldi var. redbankensis Forel, 1913a: 109 (in text) (w.) ZIMBABWE.
    • Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated).
    • Type-locality: Zimbabwe (“Rhodesia”): Redbank (G. Arnold).
    • Type-depository: MHNG.
    • Combination in Euponera (Mesoponera): Arnold, 1915: 71;
    • combination in Pachycondyla: Brown, in Bolton, 1995b: 308;
    • combination in Mesoponera: Schmidt, C.A. & Shattuck, 2014: 110.
    • Subspecies of elisae: Arnold, 1915: 71; Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 775; Bolton, 1995b: 308.
    • Distribution: Zimbabwe.

Description

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