Odontomachus cephalotes Smith F., 1863: 19

Radchenko, Alexander G., Fisher, Brian L., Esteves, Flavia A., Martynova, Ekateryna V., Bazhenova, Tatyana N. & Lasarenko, Svetlana N., 2023, Ant type specimens (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in the collection of Volodymyr Opanasovych Karawajew. Communication 1. Dorylinae, Poneromorpha and Pseudomyrmecinae, Zootaxa 5244 (1), pp. 1-32 : 20

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5244.1.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7650144

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scientific name

Odontomachus cephalotes Smith F., 1863: 19
status

 

Odontomachus ruficeps F. Sm. subsp. aruanus Karawajew, 1925c: 295 , Fig. 14, w, m.

Current status: junior synonym of Odontomachus cephalotes Smith F., 1863: 19 View in CoL View at ENA .

Synonymy: Wilson 1959: 491 (s/f Ponerinae View in CoL ).

Type locality(-ies): “Wammar (Aroe-Archip.), Nr. 2566 und 2575. Nest in der Erde.—Ebenda, Nr. 2675. Nest in der Erde zwischen den Wurzeln eines grossen Baumes. ww und mehrere mm”.

Original Karawajew labels: 1 w, “Wammar, / Aru. Karavaiev”, “2566. / Coll. Karavaievi”, “ Odontomachus / ruficeps Sm. ssp. / aruanus Kar. / typus”, “ Syntypus ww / Odontomachus ruficeps / aruanus Karaw.”; 2 w, “Wammar, / Aru. Karavaiev”, “2566. / Coll. Karavaievi”, “ Odontomachus / ruficeps Sm. ssp. / aruanus Kar. / typus”; 14 w on 7 pins, “2566. / Coll. Karavaievi”, “ Syntypus ww / Odontomachus ruficeps / aruanus Karaw.”; 1 m, “2566. / Coll. Karavaievi”, “ Syntypus m / Odontomachus ruficeps / aruanus Karaw.”.

Material: SYNTYPES, 17 w ( CASENT0916850 ), 1 m (Box 4) .

Notes. There are also 10w with the labels“Wammar, /Karawajew”, “2623. Coll./ Karavaievi”, “ Odontomachus / ruficeps Sm. ssp. / aruanus Kar. / typus”, but the collection number does not correspond with the numbers given in the original description. Nevertheless, these 10 workers undoubtedly are conspecific with the syntype workers.

Wilson, E. O. (1959) Studies on the ant fauna of Melanesia. 5. The tribe Odontomachini. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, 120 (5), 483 - 510.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

Genus

Odontomachus