Odontomachus panamensis

This aggressive species shares large ant garden nests with Crematogaster carinata in a parabiotic association (Longino, 2003).

Identification
A member of the Odontomachus haematodus group.

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Neotropical Region: Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Panama.

Nomenclature

 * . Odontomachus affinis r. panamensis Forel, 1899c: 19, pl. 1, fig. 13 (w.q.m.) PANAMA.
 * Type-material: syntype workers, syntype queens, syntype males (numbrs not stated).
 * Type-locality: Panama: Bugaba, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion).
 * Type-depository: MHNG.
 * Subspecies of affinis: Emery, 1911d: 113; Wheeler, W.M. 1923a: 3.
 * Status as species: Kempf, 1972a: 7, 172; Brown, 1976a: 105, 124; Brandão, 1991: 364; Bolton, 1995b: 296; Rodriguez, J. 2008: 168; Feitosa, 2015c: 99; Fernández & Guerrero, 2019: 539.
 * Distribution: Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Panama.

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

 * Aldana R. C., and P. Chacón de Ulloa. 1995. Nuevos registros de hormigas (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) para Colombia. Boletín del Museo de Entomología de la Universidad del Valle 3(2): 55-59.
 * Emery C. 1911. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Ponerinae. Genera Insectorum 118: 1-125.
 * Fernández, F. and S. Sendoya. 2004. Lista de las hormigas neotropicales. Biota Colombiana Volume 5, Number 1.
 * INBio Collection (via Gbif)
 * Kempf, W.W. 1972. Catalago abreviado das formigas da regiao Neotropical (Hym. Formicidae) Studia Entomologica 15(1-4).
 * Longino J. T., J. Coddington, and R. K. Colwell. 2002. The ant fauna of a tropical rain forest: estimating species richness three different ways. Ecology 83: 689-702.
 * Longino J. et al. ADMAC project. Accessed on March 24th 2017 at https://sites.google.com/site/admacsite/
 * Lozano-Zambrano F. H., E. Jimenez, T. M. Arias-Penna, A. M. Arcila, J. Rodriguez, and D. P. Ramirez. 2008. Biogeografía de las hormigas cazadoras de Colombia. Pp. 349-406. 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.
 * Mertl A. L., J. F. A. Traniello, K. Ryder Wilkie, and R. Constantino. 2012. Associations of two ecologically significant social insect taxa in the litter of an amazonian rainforest: is there a relationship between ant and termite species richness? Psyche doi:10.1155/2012/312054