Current View: Bolton World Catalog

Cite this page

View in AntCat

Current Valid Name:

Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2023)

// Distribution

Distribution:

  Geographic regions (According to curated Geolocale/Taxon lists):
    Americas: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela
  Biogeographic regions (According to curated Bioregion/Taxon lists):
    Neotropical

Distribution Notes:

Southern Mexico to Northern Argentina (Brown 1976). Costa Rica: wet to moist forest of both slopes to mid-elevations; more abundant at mid-elevations than in the lowlands.

Biology:

Natural History:

This strikingly large species I have only seen as foragers in wet forest, on the forest floor, and often nocturnal. I have never seen a nest.

References:

Brown, W. L., Jr. 1976. Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. Part VI. Ponerinae, tribe Ponerini, subtribe Odontomachiti. Section A. Introduction, subtribal characters. Genus Odontomachus. Studia Entomol. 19:67-171.

Latreille, P. A. 1802. Histoire Naturelle de Fourmis, et recueil de memoires et d'observations sur les abeilles, les araignees, les faucheurs, et autres insectes. 445 pp. Paris.

Taxonomic Treatment (provided by Plazi)

Specimen Habitat Summary

Found most commonly in these habitats: 23 times found in wet forest, 20 times found in rainforest, 17 times found in montane wet forest, 10 times found in Semideciduous seasonal forest, 10 times found in Forest, 8 times found in tropical rainforest, 7 times found in lowland rainforest, 3 times found in mature moist forest, 4 times found in tropical wet forest, 3 times found in Primary wet forest, ...

Found most commonly in these microhabitats: 16 times pan trap, 10 times Malaise trap, 11 times ex sifted leaf litter, 10 times at bait, 4 times nocturnal strays, 5 times ground foragers, 3 times flight intercept trap, 4 times strays, 1 times nocturnal ground foragers, 2 times nocturnal foragers, 1 times nocturnal forager, ...

Collected most commonly using these methods: 18 times Malaise, 15 times Search, 18 times Pan Trap, 11 times epigaeic pitfall, 9 times Baiting, 6 times flight intercept trap, 6 times MaxiWinkler, 4 times blacklight, 4 times winkler, 2 times miniWinkler, 2 times direct collection, ...

Elevations: collected from 30 - 1500 meters, 498 meters average

Collect Date Range: collected between 1961-06-21 00:00:00.0 and 2020-01-20 00:00:00.0

Type specimens: syntype of Odontomachus chelifer emacerata: casent0915242; syntype of Odontomachus haematodus theresiae: casent0907426; syntype of Odontomachus chelifer leptocephalus: casent0904002

See something amiss? Send us an email.

AntWeb is hosted and supported by the California Academy of Sciences.