Taxonomic history
[Misspelled as tyranicus by Donisthorpe, 1949h PDF: 408.].Emery, 1897: 557 (q.); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1952c PDF: 652 (l.).Status as species: Roger, 1861a PDF: 28; Roger, 1863b PDF: 21; Mayr, 1863a PDF: 437; Smith, 1871a PDF: 319; Emery, 1887f PDF: 429; Emery, 1892f PDF: 559 (in key); Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 52; Emery, 1897: 557; Forel, 1901c: 5; Dahl, 1901 PDF: 12; Emery, 1911f PDF: 531; Emery, 1911e PDF: 113; Viehmeyer, 1912b PDF: 6; Viehmeyer, 1914c PDF: 516; Donisthorpe, 1932c PDF: 455; Wheeler, 1935g: 16; Chapman & Capco, 1951 PDF: 47; Wilson, 1959c PDF: 501; Brown, 1976c PDF: 106, 162; Bolton, 1995b: 297.Senior synonym of Odontomachus tyrannicus obsolescens: Wilson, 1959c PDF: 501; Brown, 1976c PDF: 106; Bolton, 1995b: 297.0. ferrugineus, laevis nitidus; thorace oblongo, metathorace transversus striata; abdominis pedun-culo unispinoso.
Worker. Length 4 lines to the tips of the inaudibles. Ferruginous, very smooth and shining; the head widest at the insertion of the eyes, more than usually so; the usual deep depressions between the eyes and the prominence at the sides of which the antennae are inserted very smooth without the faintest striation, the prominence slightly striated longitudinally; the head deeply emarginate behind; the mandibles finely serrated on their inner margins, and terminating in two stout teeth, which form a fork abruptly bent inwards. The antennae and legs of a paler colour than the body; the metathorax transversely striated, the mesothorax above longitudinally so; the spine on the node of the peduncle of the abdomen short and acute. (Pl. I. fig. 4.)
Hab. Celebes.
