Odontomachus unispinosa
Odontomachus unispinosa | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Formicidae |
Subfamily: | Ponerinae |
Tribe: | Ponerini |
Genus: | Odontomachus |
Species: | O. unispinosa |
Binomial name | |
Odontomachus unispinosa (Fabricius, 1793) |
This taxon is considered to be unidentifiable and its identity is uncertain.
Identification
Distribution
Distribution based on type material
Guadelupe Island (type locality).
Distribution based on AntMaps
Distribution based on AntWeb specimens
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Biology
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- unispinosa. Formica unispinosa Fabricius, 1793: 359 (w.) GUADELOUPE.
- Type-material: holotype(?) worker.
- [Note: no indication of number of specimens is given.]
- Type-locality: Guadeloupe: (“Guadeloupe Insula Dom. de Badier”).
- Type-depository: no material known to exist.
- Combination in Myrmecia: Fabricius, 1804: 423;
- combination in Odontomachus: Latreille, 1809: 128; Latreille, 1818c: 570.
- Status as species: Latreille, 1802c: 193; Fabricius, 1804: 423; Latreille, 1818c: 570; Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau, 1835: 187; Le Guillou, 1842: 318.
- Junior synonym of haematodus: Smith, F. 1858b: 76; Roger, 1861a: 24; Gerstäcker, 1862: 503; Roger, 1863b: 22; Mayr, 1863: 436; Mayr, 1865: 63; Mayr, 1872: 148; Forel, 1891b: 104; Dalla Torre, 1893: 50; Ruzsky, 1905b: 759; Wheeler, W.M. 1908a: 126; Emery, 1911d: 114; Gallardo, 1918b: 99; Wheeler, W.M. 1919e: 60; Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 793; Borgmeier, 1923: 78; Kempf, 1972a: 170.
- Synonym of bauri: Brandão, 1991: 363.
- [Note: Brandão gives bauri as senior synonym, but unispinosa has priority.]
- Unidentifiable taxon; incertae sedis in Odontomachus: Bolton, 1995b: 297.
- [Note: Latreille, 1802c: 194, suspected that, “cette fourmi n’est que le mulet de l’haematode de Linnée, ou une variété”. Brown, 1976a: 102, suggests possible synonymy with bauri, but on p. 130 Brown suggests it is best regarded as a nomen oblitum.]
Description
References
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 297, Unidentifiable to species; incertae sedis in Odontomachus)
- Brown, W. L., Jr. 1976c. Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. Part VI. Ponerinae, tribe Ponerini, subtribe Odontomachiti. Section A. Introduction, subtribal characters. Genus Odontomachus. Stud. Entomol. 19: 67-171 (page 102, possible synonym (senior) of bauri)
- Fabricius, J. C. 1793. Entomologia systematica emendata et aucta. Secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, adjectis synonimis, locis observationibus, descriptionibus. Tome 2. Hafniae [= Copenhagen]: C. G. Proft, 519 pp. (page 359, worker described)
- Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau, A. 1835 [1836]. Histoire naturelle des insectes. Hyménoptères. Tome I. Paris: Roret, 547 pp. (page 187, Combination in Odontomachus)
- Mayr, G. 1865. Formicidae. In: Reise der Österreichischen Fregatte "Novara" um die Erde in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859. Zoologischer Theil. Bd. II. Abt. 1. Wien: K. Gerold's Sohn, 119 pp. (page 63, Junior synonym of haematodus)
- Roger, J. 1861a. Die Ponera-artigen Ameisen (Schluss). Berl. Entomol. Z. 5: 1-54 (page 24, Junior synonym of haematodus)