Anochetus quadrispinosus (Smith, 1858) junior synonym of current valid taxon Anochetus emarginatus (Fabricius, 1804)
Odontomachus quadrispinosus Smith, 1858a: 78, pl. 5, figs. 15-17 (w.) BRAZIL (Pará). Neotropic.
Primary type information: Primary type material: 3 syntype workers. Primary type locality: Brazil: (no further data), Brazil: Pará, 48/133 (H.W. Bates & A.R. Wallace). Primary type depository: BMNH. Type notes: 1) A specimen tagged as holotype in BMNH is labelled “Brazil” and also has a Farren White label. It is probable that this determination is a secondary labelling by Farren White (who seems to have had a habit of throwing away original data labels and substituting his own). 2) Also in BMNH are two Anochetus quadrispinosus workers with the data, “Para 48/133”, for which the BMNH accessions register gives: “1848 no. 133. Para. Bt of Stevens. Collected by Mssrs Bates & Wallace.” One of these specimens is sublabelled “172.” I suspect that all three together constituted the original syntype series (Bolton (unpublished notes) 1978).
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