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Anochetus splendens Karawajew
No full textAnochetus splendens Karawajew Anochetus splendens Karawajew, 1925, Konowia, 4:289, fig-. 11, queen. Type locality: Wammar I., Aru Archipelago. Known from type material only. See discussion under A. isolatus Mann.Published as part of Wilson EO, 1959, Studies on the ant fauna of Melanesia V. The tribe Odontomachini., pp. 483-510 in Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 120 on page 50
Odontomachus latissimus Viehmeyer
No full textOdontomachus latissimus Viehmeyer Odontomachus latissimus Viehmeyer, 1913, Arch. Naturges., 79A(12):3t, fig. 5, worker. Type locality: Sattelberg, N.-E. New Guinea. Known from type material only.Published as part of Wilson EO, 1959, Studies on the ant fauna of Melanesia V. The tribe Odontomachini., pp. 483-510 in Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 120 on page 49
Odontomachus angulatus Mayr
No full textOdontomachus angulatus Mayr Odontomachus angulatus Mayr, 1866, Sitzber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, 53:500, fig. 10, worker. Type locality: Ovalau, Fiji Islanda. Mann, 1921, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 64:427, fig. 11, queen, ecology, distribution. Material examined. FIJI ISLANDS: Nadarivatu, Viti Levu (W. M. Mann); Vunidawa, Viti Levu (N. L. H. Krauss); Andubangda, 300-500 m., Ovalau (E. C. Zimmerman).Published as part of Wilson EO, 1959, Studies on the ant fauna of Melanesia V. The tribe Odontomachini., pp. 483-510 in Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 120 on page 48
Odontomachus montanus EO, 1959, n. status
No full text<p>Odontomachus montanus Stitz, n. status</p> <p>(Fig. 4, no. 7)</p> <p>Odontomachus imperator var. montanus Stitz, 1923, Sitzber. Ges. Nat. Freunde Berlin, p. 116, worker. Type locality: Lordberg, middle Sepik region, N-E. New Guinea. (Syntype examined - MCZ.)</p> <p>Known from type material only.</p>Published as part of <i>Wilson EO, 1959, Studies on the ant fauna of Melanesia V. The tribe Odontomachini., pp. 483-510 in Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 120</i> on pages 495-49
Anochetus chirichinii Emery
No full textAnochetus chirichinii Emery Anochetus Chirichinii Emery, 1897, Természetr. Fiiz., 20:597, pi. 15, figs. 46, 47, worker. Type locality: Hansemann Mts., N-E. New Guinea. (Syntype examined - Emery Coll.) Material examined. N-E. NEW GUINEA: Hansemann Mts., near Madang (syntype); Nadzab (Wilson, nos. 1088, 1101, 1107); lower Busu River (Wilson, nos. 999, 1051, 1112). Ecological notes. The collections so far recorded indicate that A. chirichinii is relatively abundant in both rain forest and monsoon forest. At the Busu River and Nadzab, workers were encountered on several occasions foraging during the day on the forest floor. A male tentatively determined as chirichinii was collected at light on May 16, 1955, at the Busu River.Published as part of Wilson EO, 1959, Studies on the ant fauna of Melanesia V. The tribe Odontomachini., pp. 483-510 in Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 120 on pages 505-50
Odontomachus opaculus EO, 1959, n. status
No full textOdontomachus opaculus Viehmeyer, n. status Odontomachus imperator subsp. opaculus Viehmeyer, 1912, Abh. Zool. Anthrop. Mus. Dresden, 14:6, fig. 6, worker. Type locality: Torricelli Mts., 640 m., N.-E. New Guinea. (Syntype examined - MCZ.) Material examined. NETH. NEW GUINEA: Wendèsi-Majosi (S. Issiki). N.-E. NEW GUINEA: Torricelli Mts. (syntype). Taxonomic note. A single worker examined from WendèsiMajosi differs from the opaculus syntype in its larger size (HW 2.77 mm vs. 2.32 mm), different orientation of pronotal striae (concentric vs. straight-transverse), and feebler striation within the extraocular furrow.Published as part of Wilson EO, 1959, Studies on the ant fauna of Melanesia V. The tribe Odontomachini., pp. 483-510 in Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 120 on page 49
Anochetus chirichinii Emery
No full text<p>Anochetus chirichinii Emery</p> <p>Anochetus Chirichinii Emery, 1897, Természetr. Fiiz., 20:597, pi. 15, figs. 46, 47, worker. Type locality: Hansemann Mts., N-E. New Guinea. (Syntype examined - Emery Coll.)</p> <p>Material examined. N-E. NEW GUINEA: Hansemann Mts., near Madang (syntype); Nadzab (Wilson, nos. 1088, 1101, 1107); lower Busu River (Wilson, nos. 999, 1051, 1112).</p> <p>Ecological notes. The collections so far recorded indicate that A. chirichinii is relatively abundant in both rain forest and monsoon forest. At the Busu River and Nadzab, workers were encountered on several occasions foraging during the day on the forest floor. A male tentatively determined as chirichinii was collected at light on May 16, 1955, at the Busu River.</p>Published as part of <i>Wilson EO, 1959, Studies on the ant fauna of Melanesia V. The tribe Odontomachini., pp. 483-510 in Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 120</i> on pages 505-50
Odontomachus emeryi EO, 1959, n. status
No full text<p>Odontomachus emeryi Mann, n. status</p> <p>(Fig. 4, no. 5)</p> <p>Odontomachus imperator subsp. emeryi Mann, 1919, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 63:303, fig. 12, worker, queen, male. Type locality: Maliali, Florida, Solomon Islands. (Syntypes examined - MCZ.)</p> <p>Material examined. SOLOMON ISLANDS: Maliali, Florida (syntypes); Fulakora, Santa Isabel (syntypes); Torokina R" Bougainville (B. D. Valentine); Kokure, 690 m., Bougainville (E. J. Ford); Boku, Bougainville (Ford).</p> <p>Taxonomic notes. This species is very similar to the widespread 0. saevissimus of western Melanesia and in fact may be no more than a geographic variant of it. Emeryi differs in its distinctive coloration and convex posterior border of petiolar node. A single worker of saevissimus from New Ireland appears to be both geographically and morphologically intermediate. It has a petiolar node like that of emeryi, but the body coloration is typical of saevissimus. Unfortunately, the head of this interesting specimen is missing.</p> <p>Ecological notes. Mann made the following observations on the type colonies: ' ' They were in dense forest; the nests were in the ground among the roots of trees and contained large numbers of workers. The workers are less active than haematoda [= simillimus] and not as aggressive." E. J. Ford, Jr., collected winged queens from a nest at Kokure on June 12, 1956.</p>Published as part of <i>Wilson EO, 1959, Studies on the ant fauna of Melanesia V. The tribe Odontomachini., pp. 483-510 in Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 120</i> on page 49
Anochetus isolatus EO, 1959, n. status
No full text<p>Anochetus isolatus Mann, n. status</p> <p>(Fig. 2)</p> <p>Anochetus cato subsp. isolatus Mann, 1919, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zoo!., 03:302, fig. 11, worker, male. Type locality: Graciosa Bay, Santa Cruz. (Syntypes examined - MCZ.)</p> <p>Material examined. SANTA CRUZ: Graciosa Bay (syntypes). Mann also recorded this species from Malapaina, Three Sisters Group, Solomons, on which island it occurs sympatrically with the closely related A. cato Forel.</p> <p>Taxonomic note. A. isolatus forms with A. splendens (Aru), A. seminiger (Waigeo), and A. splendidulus (Carolines), the "isolatus superspecies," i.e., a tightly-knit group of cognate forms which seem sufficiently well differentiated to be good biological species, but which are completely allopatric in distribution. Actually, treatment of these four forms as species must be considered arbitrary until evidence is obtained of non-intergradation in areas of overlap, if indeed such areas exist at all.</p> <p>The range of the isolatus superspecies forms a nearly complete circle around that of the related species cato. Brown (Quart. Rev. Biol., 32:271, 1957) has suggested that this unusual pattern may have resulted from the replacement of isolât in New Guinea, Bismarck Archipelago, and western Solomons by the more recently evolved rato.</p>Published as part of <i>Wilson EO, 1959, Studies on the ant fauna of Melanesia V. The tribe Odontomachini., pp. 483-510 in Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 120</i> on page 50
Odontomachus papuanus EO, 1959, n. status
No full textOdontomachus papuanus Emery, n. status (Fig. IB) Odontomachus rixosus var. papuanus Emery, 1887, Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Genova, (2)5:429, worker. Type locality: Aru. (Syntype examined- Emery Coll.). Odontomachus papuanus var. concentricus Emery, 1897, op. cit., 38:557, worker. Type locality: Moroka, Papua, NEW SYNONYMY (provisional). Material examined. NETH. NEW GUINEA: Maffin Bay (E. S. Ross). N-E. NEW GUINEA: lower Busu River (Wilson, nos. 901, 923); Bulolo, 730 m. (E. J. Ford); Sattelberg-Maroruo, 800-900 m. (Wilson, no. 724); Maroruo, 900 m. (Wilson, no. 729); Nganduo, 1000 m. (Wilson, no. 733); Ebabaang, 1300- 1400 m. (Wilson, no. 828); Wamuki, 800 m. (Wilson, no. 850). ARU: syntype worker. Taxonomic notes. O. papuanus is closely related to the Oriental species rixosus Fr. Smith, differing chiefly in its longer petiolar spine and more rounded apical mandibular teeth. Its recognition here as a distinct species is a provisional measure only. Significant geographic variation occurs within the range of papuanus on New Guinea. Workers from the lowlands (Maffin Bay, lower Busu River) are smaller and lighter in color than those from the mountains of the Huon Peninsula. The syntype from Aru is light in color but as large as the montane New Guinea workers. Ecological notes. This species has been collected in both primary lowland rain forest and primary and secondary midmountain rain forest on New Guinea. Workers were found foraging singly on the ground during both the day and night. At the Busu River, a nest was found on a steep forested hillside. It consisted of a single shaft, five centimeters wide, extending horizontally into the soil beneath a tree root for a distance of approximately 45 centimeters. The colony was a small one, containing a single queen and about twenty workers, and may have been incipient.Published as part of Wilson EO, 1959, Studies on the ant fauna of Melanesia V. The tribe Odontomachini., pp. 483-510 in Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 120 on pages 496-49
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