Odontomachus angulatus

Identification
A member of the Odontomachus infandus group

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Indo-Australian Region: Fiji.

Nomenclature

 * . Odontomachus angulatus Mayr, 1866a: 500, pl., fig. 10 (w.) FIJI IS (Ovalau I.).
 * Type-material: holotype(?) worker.
 * [Note: no indication of number of specimens is given.]
 * Type-locality: Fiji Is: Viti-Insel, Ovalua (“in Museum Godeffroy in Hamburg”).
 * Type-depository: MNHU.
 * Mann, 1921: 427 (q.).
 * Status as species: Mayr, 1876: 86; Dalla Torre, 1893: 49; Emery, 1911d: 113; Mann, 1921: 427; Wheeler, W.M. 1935g: 15; Wilson, 1959a: 489; Brown, 1976a: 102, 124; Dlussky, 1994: 53; Bolton, 1995b: 294; Sarnat & Economo, 2012: 158.
 * Senior synonym of politus: Brown, 1976a: 102; Bolton, 1995b: 294.
 * Distribution: Fiji Is.
 * politus. Odontomachus politus Stitz, 1925: 116 (w.) FIJI IS (no island nominated).
 * Type-material: holotype worker.
 * Type-locality: Fiji Is: (no further data) (Friedländer).
 * Type-depository: MNHU.
 * Status as species: Wheeler, W.M. 1935g: 16.
 * Junior synonym of angulatus: Brown, 1976a: 102, 124; Bolton, 1995b: 297.

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

 * 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.
 * CSIRO Collection
 * Dlussky G.M. 1994. Zoogeography of southwestern Oceania. Zhivotnoe naselenie ostrovov Iugo-Zapadnoi Okeanii ekologo-geograficheskie issledovanii 48-93.
 * Emery C. 1911. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Ponerinae. Genera Insectorum 118: 1-125.
 * Mann W. M. 1921. The ants of the Fiji Islands. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. 64: 401-499.
 * Sarnat Eli M. 2009. The Ants [Hymenoptera: Formicdiae] of Fiji: Systematics, Biogeography and Conservation of an Island Arc Fauna. 80-252
 * Stitz H. 1925. Ameisen von den Philippinen, den malayischen und ozeanischen Inseln. Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin 1923: 110-136.
 * Ward, Darren F. and James K. Wetterer. 2006. Checklist of the Ants of Fiji. Fiji Arthropods III 85: 23-47.
 * Wheeler W.M. 1935. Check list of the ants of Oceania. Occasional Papers of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum 11(11):1-56.
 * Wheeler, William Morton.1935.Checklist of the Ants of Oceania.Occasional Papers 11(11): 3-56
 * Wilson E. O. 1959. Studies on the ant fauna of Melanesia V. The tribe Odontomachini. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 120: 483-510.
 * Wilson E.O. 1959. Adaptive shift and dispersal in a tropical ant fauna. Evolution 13(1): 122-144.
 * Wilson E.O., and G.L. Hunt. 1967. Ant fauna of Futuna and Wallis islands, stepping stones to Polynesia. Pacific Insects 9(4): 563-584.
 * Wilson Edward O. 1959. Adaptive Shift and Dispersal in a Tropical Ant Fauna. Evolution 13(1): 122-144
 * Wilson, Edward O. and George L. Hunt. 1967. Ant Fauna of Futuna and Wallis Islands, Stepping Stones To Polynesia. Pacific Insects. 9(4):563-584.
 * Wilson, Edward O. and Hunt, George L. Jr. 1967. Ant Fauna of Futuna and Wallis Islands, Stepping Stones to Polynesia. Pacific Insects. 9(4):563-584