Odontomachus unispinosa

Odontomachus unispinosa
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.

Distribution

Distribution based on type material

Guadelupe Island (type locality).

Distribution based on AntMaps

Distribution based on AntWeb specimens

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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.]

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)