Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype(?) worker. Primary type locality: Guadeloupe: (“Guadeloupe Insula Dom. de Badier”). Primary type depository: no type material known to exist.
Type notes:
1) No indication of number of specimens is given. 2) Zimsen, 1964: 427, reports one specimen in ZMUK.
[Note: Latreille, 1802a: 194, suspected that, "cette fourmi n’est que le mulet de l’haematode de Linnée, ou une variété". Brown, 1976c: 102, suggests possible synonymy with Odontomachus bauri, but on p. 130 Brown suggests it is best regarded as a nomen oblitum.]