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The following species and subspecies belong to the genus Odontomachus. Synonyms are listed under their senior names. For valid names only see Odontomachus species and for distribution information see Odontomachus species by Country.

A

aciculatus Smith, F., 1863 (Indonesia, New Guinea)
• Odontomachus aeneus Emery, 1911

affinis Guérin-Méneville, 1844 (Brazil, Colombia)
alius Sorger & Zettel, 2011 (Philippines)
allolabis Kempf, 1974 (Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador)
angulatus Mayr, 1866 (Fiji)
• Odontomachus politus Stitz, 1925

animosus Smith, F., 1860 (New Guinea)
assiniensis Emery, 1892 (Benin, Cameroun, Central African Republic, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Mozambique, South Africa, Uganda, United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia)
   • Odontomachus assiniensis aterrimus Wheeler, W.M., 1922
   • Odontomachus assiniensis caffrorum Santschi, 1914
   • Odontomachus assiniensis fauconneti Forel, 1910
   • Odontomachus assiniensis flavescens Bernard, 1953
   • Odontomachus assiniensis furvior Wheeler, W.M., 1922
   • Odontomachus assiniensis fuscus Stitz, 1916
   • Odontomachus assiniensis tropicalis Menozzi, 1922
   • Odontomachus intermedius Stitz, 1911

B

banksi Forel, 1910 (Philippines)
bauri Emery, 1892 (Argentina, Barbados, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Galapagos Islands, Greater Antilles, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Saint Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela)
   • Odontomachus haematoda notata Mann, 1920
   • Odontomachus haematodes microcephalus Emery, 1890
   • Odontomachus haematodes rugisquama Forel, 1908
   • Odontomachus haematodus paucidens Emery, 1893
   • Odontomachus haematodus pubescens Roger, 1861
   • Odontomachus sericeus Provancher, 1895

biolleyi Forel, 1908 (Costa Rica, Mexico)
biumbonatus Brown, 1976 (Brazil, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname)
bradleyi Brown, 1976 (Ecuador, Peru)
brunneus (Patton, 1894) (Brazil, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, Mexico, Trinidad and Tobago, United States)
• Odontomachus haematodes fuscus Stitz, 1925

C

caelatus Brown, 1976 (Brazil, Ecuador, French Guiana, Peru, Suriname)
cephalotes Smith, F., 1863 (Australia, Indonesia, New Guinea)
• Odontomachus ruficeps ajax Clark, 1928
• Odontomachus ruficeps aruanus Karavaiev, 1925

chelifer (Latreille, 1802) (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela)
   • Odontomachus chelifer emacerata Santschi, 1922
   • Odontomachus chelifer leptocephalus Emery, 1890
   • Odontomachus haematodes theresiae Forel, 1895

circulus Wang, M., 1993 (China)
clarus Roger, 1861 (Mexico, United States)
   • Odontomachus haematoda clarionensis Wheeler, W.M., 1934
   • Odontomachus haematodus coninodis Wheeler, W.M., 1915
   • Odontomachus texana Buckley, 1867

coquereli Roger, 1861 (Madagascar)
• Champsomyrmex coquereli minor Emery, 1899

cornutus Stitz, 1933 (Ecuador)

D

davidsoni Hoenle, Lattke & Donoso, 2020 (Ecuador)
desertorum Wheeler, W.M., 1915 (United States)

E

erythrocephalus Emery, 1890 (Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, Panama)

F

ferminae General, 2018 (Philippines)
floresensis Brown, 1976 (Indonesia)
fulgidus Wang, M., 1993 (China)

G

granatus Wang, M., 1993 (China)

H

haematodus (Linnaeus, 1758) (Argentina, Bahamas, Bolivia, Brazil, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Greater Antilles, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Lesser Antilles, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, United States, Venezuela)
   • Formica maxillosa De Geer De Geer, 1773
   • Odontomachus haematoda brunneipes Menozzi, 1935
   • Odontomachus haematoda pallipes Crawley, 1916
   • Odontomachus hirsutiusculus Smith, F., 1858

hastatus (Fabricius, 1804) (Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Panama, Peru, Suriname)
• Odontomachus maxillaris Smith, F., 1858

I

imperator Emery, 1887 (New Guinea)
infandus Smith, F., 1858 (New Guinea, Philippines)
• Odontomachus infandus striaticeps Stitz, 1925

insularis Guérin-Méneville, 1844 (Barbados, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Greater Antilles, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Haiti, Lesser Antilles, Mexico, Saint Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago)

K

kuroiwae (Matsumura, 1912) (Japan)

L

laticeps Roger, 1861 (Bolivia, Brazil, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Suriname)
• Odontomachus haematodes striativentris Emery, 1890

latidens Mayr, 1867 (Borneo, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand)
latissimus Viehmeyer, 1914 (New Guinea)
linearis Chen & Zhou, 2018 (China)
litoralis Wang, Yamada & Yamane, 2020 (Malaysia, Singapore)

M

macrorhynchus (Bernstein, 1861)
malignus Smith, F., 1859 (Borneo, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Guinea, Palau, Philippines, Singapore, Solomon Islands)
• Odontomachus retrolatior Viehmeyer, 1914
• Odontomachus tuberculatus Roger, 1861

mayi Mann, 1912 (Brazil, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname)
meinerti Forel, 1905 (Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela)
• Odontomachus haematoda dulcis Mann, 1922
• Odontomachus haematoda minuta Luederwaldt, 1918

minangkabau Satria, Kurushima, Herwina, Yamane & Eguchi, 2015 (Indonesia)
montanus Stitz, 1925 (New Guinea)
monticola Emery, 1892 (Bangladesh, Borneo, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam)
   • Odontomachus monticola formosae Forel, 1912
   • Odontomachus monticola hainanensis Stitz, 1925
   • Odontomachus monticola longi Forel, 1900
   • Odontomachus monticola major Forel, 1913
   • Odontomachus monticola pauperculus Wheeler, W.M., 1921
   • Odontomachus monticola punctulatus Forel, 1900
   • Odontomachus striata Menozzi, 1930

mormo Brown, 1976 (Colombia, Ecuador)

N

nigriceps Smith, F., 1860 (New Guinea)
• Odontomachus angulatus praefectus Forel, 1911

O

opaciventris Forel, 1899 (Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Panama)
opaculus Viehmeyer, 1912 (New Guinea)

P

panamensis Forel, 1899 (Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Panama)
pangantihoni Zettel & Sorger, 2023 (Philippines)
papuanus Emery, 1887 (New Guinea, Philippines)
• Odontomachus papuanus concentrica Emery, 1897

pararixosus Terayama & Ito, 2014 (Malaysia)
peruanus Stitz, 1933 (Peru)
philippinus Emery, 1893 (Philippines)
procerus Emery, 1893 (Indonesia, Malaysia)
• Odontomachus latidens sumatranus Emery, 1900

R

relictus Deyrup & Cover, 2004 (United States)
rixosus Smith, F., 1857 (Bangladesh, Borneo, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam)
• Odontomachus rixosus conifera Forel, 1913
• Odontomachus rixosus obscurior Forel, 1900

ruficeps Smith, F., 1858 (Australia)
   • Odontomachus coriarius Mayr, 1876
   • Odontomachus coriarius magnus Mayr, 1876
   • Odontomachus coriarius obscura Crawley, 1922
   • Odontomachus coriarius semicircularis Mayr, 1876
   • Odontomachus ruficeps acutidens Forel, 1900
   • Odontomachus ruficeps rubriceps Forel, 1915
   • Odontomachus ruficeps rufescens Forel, 1915
   • Odontomachus septentrionalis Crawley, 1915
   • Odontomachus sharpei Forel, 1893

rufithorax Emery, 1911 (New Guinea, Solomon Islands)
• Odontomachus gressitti Wilson, 1959
• Odontomachus imperator emeryi Mann, 1919

ruginodis Smith, M.R., 1937 (Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Galapagos Islands, Greater Antilles, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Netherlands Antilles, Panama, Puerto Rico, United States)

S

saevissimus Smith, F., 1858 (Indonesia, New Guinea, Philippines)
   • Odontomachus imperator tauerni Stitz, 1925
   • Odontomachus saevissimus linae Donisthorpe, 1940
   • Odontomachus transversostriatus Donisthorpe, 1941

scalptus Brown, 1978 (Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname)
schoedli Sorger & Zettel, 2011 (Philippines)
scifictus Sorger & Zettel, 2011 (Philippines)
silvestrii Wheeler, W.M., 1927 (China, Vietnam)
• Odontomachus silvestrii substriatus Wheeler, W.M., 1927

simillimus Smith, F., 1858 (Australia, Bangladesh, Borneo, Cambodia, Fiji, Guam, India, Indonesia, Kiribati, Krakatau Islands, Laos, Malaysia, Marshall Islands, Micronesia (Federated States of), Mozambique, New Caledonia, New Guinea, Nicobar Island, Niue, Northern Mariana Islands, Palau, Philippines, Samoa, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Tonga, Vietnam, Wallis and Futuna Islands)
   • Odontomachus haematoda breviceps Crawley, 1915
   • Odontomachus haematodes fuscipennis Forel, 1913
   • Ponera pallidicornis Smith, F., 1860

spissus Kempf, 1962 (Brazil)
sumbensis Brown, 1976 (Indonesia)

T

tensus Wang, M., 1993 (China)
testaceus Emery, 1897 (New Guinea)
   • Odontomachus gulosus Emery, 1901
   • Odontomachus gulosus nubila Emery, 1911
   • Odontomachus nigrifrons Donisthorpe, 1940

troglodytes Santschi, 1914 (Benin, Cameroun, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea, Gambia, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria, Senegal, Seychelles, South Africa, Taiwan, Uganda, United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe)
• Odontomachus haematodus stanleyi Wheeler, W.M., 1922

turneri Forel, 1900 (Australia, New Guinea)
tyrannicus Smith, F., 1859 (Indonesia, New Guinea)
• Odontomachus tyrannicus obsolescens Donisthorpe, 1940

U

unispinosa (Fabricius, 1793)

X

xizangensis Wang, M., 1993 (China)

Y

yamanei Zettel & Sorger, 2023 (Solomon Islands)
yucatecus Brown, 1976 (Belize, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico)

Fossil Species

Odontomachus
	Ponerinae
	; Odontomachus haematodus
	; Distribution
	; Species Richness
Statistics
Valid Species	78
Invalid Species	72
Fossils	3
Countries Occupied	90
Year Described	1804
First Species Described	1758
Last Species Described	2023

P

paleomyagra Wappler, Dlussky, Engel, Prokop & Knor, 2014 (Most Formation, Czech Republic (Burdigalian, Early Miocene))
pseudobauri (De Andrade, 1994) (Dominican amber, Dominican Republic (Burdigalian, Early Miocene))

S

spinifer De Andrade, 1994 (Dominican amber, Dominican Republic (Burdigalian, Early Miocene))