Odontomachus ruginodis

Identification
Deyrup and Trager (1985) - Worker: gastral hairs, pronotal striation, inner side of hind femur approximately as in Odontomachus clarus; petiole conspicuously transversely striate on sides and back; color reddish brown to piceous gaster black. Male: each ocellus less than two-thirds as wide as ocello-ocular space, ocelli not on a turret; petiole strongly rugose laterally; propodeum and lateral pronotal spot black, remainder of thorax and head yellow, gaster brown.

Distribution
This taxon was described from Bahamas.

It is also found in Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama, Costa Rica, United States, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Bermuda and Barbados.

Puerto Rico
Wheeler (1908): ...found only in open, sunny places in the sandy soil of river bottoms. It is smaller than ..Odontomachus haematodus.., has a paler head, and the petiole is less acuminate above, with a shorter spine.

Nomenclature

 *  ruginodis. Odontomachus haematodus var. ruginodis Smith, M.R. 1937: 828 (w.q.) BAHAMAS. [First available use of Odontomachus haematodes subsp. insularis var. ruginodis Wheeler, W.M. 1905b: 82; unavailable name.] Deyrup, Trager & Carlin, 1985: 192 (m.). Raised to species: Wilson, 1964b: 4. Junior synonym of brunneus: Brown, 1976a: 103. Revived from synonymy: Deyrup, Trager & Carlin, 1985: 192.

Additional References

 * Wheeler, W. M. 1908a. The ants of Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 24: 117-158.