Odontomachus mayi

Identification
A member of the Odontomachus haematodus group.

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Neotropical Region: Brazil, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname.

Ant Gardens
This species is known to form ant gardens (i.e., they are able to initiate ant gardens or are restricted to ant gardens) (Dejean et al., 2000; Mann, 1912; Marini Filho, 1999; Orivel & Leroy, 2011; Orivel et al., 1998 (noted as ant-garden initiator)).

Nomenclature

 * . Odontomachus affinis subsp. mayi Mann, 1912: 39 (w.) BRAZIL (Rondônia)).
 * Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated, “numerous”).
 * Type-locality: Brazil: Mato Grosso (now Rondônia), Madeira Mamoré Railroad Company Camp no. 41, 306 km. from San Antonio, viii.1911 (W.M. Mann).
 * Type-depository: MCZC (probably also in AMNH, LACM).
 * [Misspelled as mayri by Wheeler, W.M. 1942: 156.]
 * Subspecies of affinis: Mann, 1916: 418; Borgmeier, 1923: 77; Wheeler, W.M. 1942: 156.
 * Status as species: Kempf, 1972a: 7, 172; Brown, 1976a: 104, 124; Bolton, 1995b: 296; Rodriguez, J. 2008: 165; Feitosa, 2015c: 99; Fernández & Guerrero, 2019: 539.
 * Distribution: Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana.

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

 * Astruc C., J. F. Julien, C. Errard, and A. Lenoir. 2004. Phylogeny of ants based on morphology and DNA sequence data. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 31: 880-893.
 * 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. Stud. Entomol. 19: 67-171.
 * Dejean A., B. Corbara, J. Orivel, R. R. Snelling, J. H. C. Delabie, and M. Belin-Depoux. 2000. The importance of ant gardens in the pioneer vegetal formations of French Guiana (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Sociobiology 35(3): 425-439.
 * Fernández F., and T. M. Arias-Penna. 2008. Las hormigas cazadoras en la región Neotropical. Pp. 3-39 in: Jiménez, E.; Fernández, F.; Arias, T.M.; Lozano-Zambrano, F. H. (eds.) 2008. Sistemática, biogeografía y conservación de las hormigas cazadoras de Colombia. Bogotá: Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt, xiv + 609 pp.
 * Fernández, F. and S. Sendoya. 2004. Lista de las hormigas neotropicales. Biota Colombiana Volume 5, Number 1.
 * Franco W., N. Ladino, J. H. C. Delabie, A. Dejean, J. Orivel, M. Fichaux, S. Groc, M. Leponce, and R. M. Feitosa. 2019. First checklist of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of French Guiana. Zootaxa 4674(5): 509-543.
 * Gibernau M., J. Orivel, J. H. C. Delabie, D. Barabe, and A. Dejean. 2007. An asymmetrical relationship between an arboreal ponerine ant and a trash-basket epiphyte (Araceae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 91: 341-346.
 * Lozano-Zambrano F. H., E. Jimenez, T. M. Arias-Penna, A. M. Arcila, J. Rodriguez, and D. P. Ramirez. 2008. Biogeografía de las hormigas cazadoras de Colombia. Pp. 349-406. in: Jiménez, E.; Fernández, F.; Arias, T.M.; Lozano-Zambrano, F. H. (eds.) 2008. Sistemática, biogeografía y conservación de las hormigas cazadoras de Colombia. Bogotá: Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt, xiv + 609 pp.
 * Orivel, J., A. Dejean and C. Errard. 1998. Active Role of Two Ponerine Ants in the Elaboration of Ant Gardens. Biotropica 30(3):487-491.