Odontomachus nigrifrons

An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World by Barry Bolton

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Odontomachus nigrifrons Donisthorpe, 1940 junior synonym of current valid taxon Odontomachus testaceus Emery, 1897

Odontomachus nigrifrons Donisthorpe, 1940c: 106 (w.) NEW GUINEA (Indonesia). Australasia.

Primary type information: Type-material: 6 syntype workers. Type-locality: Indonesia: Irian Jaya (“E New Guinea”), Humboldt Bay, Hollandia, vi.1936, No. 174, sea level, in forest (L.E. Cheesman). Type-depository: BMNH.

Junior synonym of Odontomachus testaceus: Wilson, 1959c: 500; Brown, 1976c: 106; Bolton, 1995b: 296.

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Brown, W. L., Jr. 1976c. Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. Part VI. Ponerinae, tribe Ponerini, subtribe Odontomachiti. Section A. Introduction, subtribal characters. Genus Odontomachus. Studia Entomologica 19:67-171. PDF
Donisthorpe, H. 1940c. Some new forms of Odontomachus (Hym., Formicidae). Entomologist 73:106-109. PDF
Wilson, E. O. 1959c. Studies on the ant fauna of Melanesia V. The tribe Odontomachini. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 120:483-510. PDF

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