Anochetus testaceus

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Neotropical Region: Bahamas, Belize, Grenada, Lesser Antilles, Puerto Rico.

Puerto Rico
Wheeler (1908): Several colonies nesting under stones in the shade of trees along the dry arroyos on the higher part of the island (Monte Resaca). The number of individuals in a colony varies from about thirty to one hundred. The cocoons are long and slender like those of Leptogenys.

Nomenclature

 * . Anochetus (Stenomyrmex) emarginatus r. testaceus Forel, 1893g: 356 (w.m.) ST VINCENT & THE GRENADINES (St Vincent I.).
 * Type-material: syntype workers, syntype males (numbers not stated).
 * Type-localities: St Vincent & the Grenadines: St Vincent I., 3a, 3b, 3c, and 3d (H.H. Smith).
 * [Note: 3a = Near Lot 14 Estate (windward), 500 ft, v., under log, 3b =Forest, Morne à Garou, 27.x., at root of a tree, 3c = Fitz-Hugh Valley (leeward), 500 ft, 4.xi., under log, 3d = Wallilobo Valley (leeward), 8.xi., under stone.]
 * Type-depository: MHNG.
 * Wheeler, G.C. & Wheeler, J. 1952c: 646 (l.).
 * Subspecies of emarginatus: Emery, 1894c: 186 (in key); Forel, 1897b: 298; Wheeler, W.M. 1905b: 82, 121; Wheeler, W.M. 1907a: 271; Wheeler, W.M. 1908a: 125; Forel, 1908b: 36; Emery, 1911d: 111; Wheeler, W.M. 1925a: 9 (in key); Smith, M.R. 1937: 827; Kempf, 1964f: 238; Kempf, 1972a: 21.
 * Status as species: Brown, 1978c: 559, 610; Brandão, 1991: 325; Bolton, 1995b: 66.
 * Distribution: Grenada, St Vincent & the Grenadines.

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

 * Brandao, C.R.F. 1991. Adendos ao catalogo abreviado das formigas da regiao neotropical (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Rev. Bras. Entomol. 35: 319-412.
 * Brown Jr., W.L. 1978. Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. Part VI. Ponerinae, Tribe Ponerini, Subtribe Odontomachiti, Section B. Genus Anochetus and Bibliography. Studia Entomologia 20(1-4): 549-XXX
 * Brown W.L. Jr. 1978. Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. Part VI. Ponerinae, tribe Ponerini, subtribe Odontomachiti. Section B. Genus Anochetus and bibliography. Studia Ent. 20(1-4): 549-638.
 * Emery C. 1911. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Ponerinae. Genera Insectorum 118: 1-125.
 * Fernández F. 2008. Subfamilia Ponerinae s.str. Pp. 123-218 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 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.
 * Forel A. 1897. Quelques Formicides de l'Antille de Grenada récoltés par M. H. H. Smith. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London. 1897: 297-300.
 * Kempf, W.W. 1972. Catalago abreviado das formigas da regiao Neotropical (Hym. Formicidae) Studia Entomologica 15(1-4).
 * Morrison L. W. 1998. A review of Bahamian ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) biogeography. Journal of Biogeography 25: 561-571.
 * Smith M. R. 1937. The ants of Puerto Rico. Journal of Agriculture of the University of Puerto Rico 20: 819-875.
 * Wheeler W. M. 1905. The ants of the Bahamas, with a list of the known West Indian species. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 21: 79-135.
 * Wheeler W. M. 1907. A collection of ants from British Honduras. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 23: 271-277.
 * Wheeler W. M. 1908. The ants of Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 24: 117-158.
 * Wheeler, William Morton. 1911. Ants Collected in Grenada, W.I. by Mr. C. T. Brues. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparitive Zoology at Harvard College. 54(5):166-172.