Odontomachus laticeps

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Neotropical Region: Bolivia, Brazil, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Suriname.

Nomenclature

 * . Odontomachus haematodus var. laticeps Roger, 1861a: 25 (in text) (w.) MEXICO (Veracruz).
 * Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated).
 * Type-locality: Mexico: Veracruz, Córdoba (M. Sallé).
 * Type-depository: MNHU.
 * Subspecies of haematodus: Emery, 1890b: 44; Emery, in Dalla Torre, 1893: 50 (footnote), 51; Emery, 1894k: 50; Forel, 1899c: 21; Forel, 1911e: 251; Emery, 1911d: 115; Crawley, 1916b: 367; Mann, 1916: 419; Mann, 1922: 18; Borgmeier, 1923: 79; Wheeler, W.M. 1925a: 10; Menozzi, 1931b: 267.
 * Status as species: Dalla Torre, 1893: 51; Kempf, 1970b: 328; Kempf, 1972a: 172; Brown, 1976a: 104, 154; Brown, 1978b: 284; Brandão, 1991: 363; Bolton, 1995b: 296; Branstetter & Sáenz, 2012: 262; Feitosa, 2015c: 99; Guénard & Economo, 2015: 228.
 * Senior synonym of striativentris: Brown, 1976a: 104; Brandão, 1991: 364; Bolton, 1995b: 296.
 * Distribution: Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, Peru.
 * striativentris. Odontomachus haematodes r. striativentris Emery, 1890b: 44 (w.) COSTA RICA.
 * Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated).
 * Type-locality: Costa Rica: Jiménez, 1889 (A. Alfaro).
 * Type-depository: MSNG.
 * [Also described as new by Emery, 1894k: 50.]
 * Subspecies of haematodus: Emery, in Dalla Torre, 1893: 50 (footnote), 52; Forel, 1899c: 21; Forel, 1908b: 35; Emery, 1911d: 115; Mann, 1922: 18.
 * Status as species: Dalla Torre, 1893: 52; Kempf, 1970b: 329; Kempf, 1972a: 172.
 * Junior synonym of laticeps: Brown, 1976a: 104; Brandão, 1991: 364; Bolton, 1995b: 297.

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