Current Valid Name:
Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2022)
Odontomachus insularis Guérin-Méneville, 1844a PDF: 423 (w.m.) CUBA. Neotropic. Primary type information: Type-material: lectotype worker (by designation of
Brown, 1976c PDF: 135). Type-locality: Cuba (no further data). Type-depository: MNHN. Type notes: Guérin-Méneville also describes a syntype male.
AntCat AntWiki HOL Taxonomic history
Subspecies of
Odontomachus haematodus:
Emery, 1890c PDF: 44 (footnote);
Emery, 1893m PDF: 50 (footnote);
Emery, 1895d PDF: 268;
Forel, 1897b PDF: 298;
Forel, 1899b PDF: 20;
Wheeler, 1905c PDF: 82, 122;
Wheeler, 1906j PDF: 349;
Forel, 1908 PDF: 340;
Forel, 1909a PDF: 252;
Forel, 1910b PDF: 10;
Wheeler, 1910a PDF: 562;
Emery, 1911e PDF: 115;
Forel, 1912d PDF: 28;
Wheeler, 1913b PDF: 482;
Wheeler, 1913d PDF: 113;
Wheeler, 1913e PDF: 240;
Forel, 1913m PDF: 207;
Wheeler & Mann, 1914 PDF: 17;
Wheeler, 1916f PDF: 323;
Wheeler, 1917g PDF: 458;
Luederwaldt, 1918 PDF: 36;
Wheeler, 1919e: 303;
Mann, 1920b PDF: 404;
Wheeler, 1922e PDF: 4;
Borgmeier, 1923: 78;
Wheeler, 1923d PDF: 3;
Menozzi, 1929b PDF: 2;
Menozzi & Russo, 1930 PDF: 151;
Smith, 1930a PDF: 2;
Wheeler, 1932a PDF: 3;
Wheeler, 1934f PDF: 139;
Wheeler, 1935g: 16;
Wheeler, 1936c PDF: 196;
Wheeler, 1937b PDF: 446;
Smith, 1939d PDF: 127 (redescription);
Creighton, 1950a PDF: 56;
Smith, 1951c PDF: 787;
Smith, 1954c PDF: 2;
Smith, 1958c PDF: 112;
Smith, 1967a PDF: 348;
Kempf, 1972b PDF: 171;
Alayo, 1974 PDF: 31.
Status as species:
Smith, 1858a PDF: 79;
Roger, 1861a PDF: 26;
Roger, 1863b PDF: 22;
Mayr, 1863a PDF: 438;
Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 51;
Taylor & Wilson, 1962 PDF: 142;
Brown, 1976c PDF: 104, 135;
Smith, 1979: 1345;
Brandão, 1991 PDF: 363;
Bolton, 1995b: 296;
Guénard & Economo, 2015 10.11646/zootaxa.4040.2.8: 228;
Wetterer et al., 2016 PDF: 14;
Lubertazzi, 2019 10.3099/MCZ-43.1 PDF: 138.
// Distribution
Distribution:
Geographic regions (According to curated Geolocale/Taxon lists)
: Americas: Barbados,
Cuba,
Dominican Republic,
Grenada,
Guadeloupe,
Haiti,
Mexico,
Panama,
Puerto Rico,
Saint Lucia,
Trinidad and Tobago,
United States Biogeographic regions (According to curated Bioregion/Taxon lists)
: Nearctic,
Neotropical
Identification:
Similar to
Odontomachus ruginodis but easily separable by characters of the petiole: Anterior petiolar face tapering evenly through apex of apical spine, and petiole smooth and shining.
Specimen Habitat Summary
Found most commonly in these habitats: 8 times found in mixed hardwood forest, 3 times found in montane forest, 2 times found in wet rainforest, 1 times found in wet mixed, 1 times found in mixed pine forest, 1 times found in Tropical hardwood forest, 1 times found in palm forest, 1 times found in Palm Grove, 1 times found in pine forest, 1 times found in Arid tropical woodland, ...
Found most commonly in these microhabitats: 9 times ex sifted litter, 3 times ex sifted leaf litter, 3 times under rock, 2 times soil nest, 1 times with orchids, 1 times under small rotting log, 1 times sifted litter (leaf mold, rotten wood), 1 times in stump, 1 times garden path, 1 times dead stick on ground, 1 times Base of tree, ...
Collected most commonly using these methods: 12 times Winkler.
Elevations: collected from 18 - 1829 meters, 462 meters average
Collect Date Range: collected between 1938-05-12 00:00:00.0 and 2014-10-04 00:00:00.0
Type specimens: type of Odontomachus insularis: focol0683, focol0684-1, focol0684-2
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Mexico
United States
India
Madagascar
Canada
Brazil
China
Greece
Spain
Australia
