Odontomachus unispinosa

This taxon is considered to be unidentifiable and its identity is uncertain.

Distribution based on type material
Guadelupe Island.

Nomenclature

 * . 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.]