Odontomachus aciculatus Fr. Smith

Wilson EO, 1959, Studies on the ant fauna of Melanesia V. The tribe Odontomachini., Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 120, pp. 483-510 : 489

Odontomachus aciculatus Fr. Smith

(Fig. 4, no. 12)

Odontomachus aciculatus Fr. Smith , 1863, J. Proc. Linn. Soc. London, Zool., 7:19, worker. Type locality: Misol. Mayr, 1876, J. Mus. Godeff. Hamburg, 12:86; worker. Donisthorpe, 1940, Entomologist, 70:109; worker.

Odontomachus cephalotes var. aciculatus, Emery , 1887, Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Genova, 4:428, worker, dist.

Odontomachus ruficeps var. aciculata, Emery , 1911, Gen. Ins., 118:115. Odontomachus ruficeps cephalotes var. verticilliatus Stitz , 1912, Sitzber. Ges. Nat. Freunde Berlin, 9:501-503, figs. 5, 6, worker. - Type locality: New Guinea (ex Kaiserin-Augustafluss Exped.). NEW SYNONYMY. (Syntype examined - MCZ.)

Material examined. NEW GUINEA: verticillatus syntype.