Odontomachus ruficeps F. Sm. subsp. aruanus Karawajew, 1925c: 295, Fig. 14, w, m.

Current status: junior synonym of Odontomachus cephalotes Smith F., 1863: 19 .

Synonymy: Wilson 1959: 491 (s/f Ponerinae).

Type locality(-ies): “Wammar (Aroe-Archip.), Nr. 2566 und 2575. Nest in der Erde.—Ebenda, Nr. 2675. Nest in der Erde zwischen den Wurzeln eines grossen Baumes. ww und mehrere mm”.

Original Karawajew labels: 1 w, “Wammar, / Aru. Karavaiev”, “2566. / Coll. Karavaievi”, “ Odontomachus / ruficeps Sm. ssp. / aruanus Kar. / typus”, “ Syntypus ww / Odontomachus ruficeps / aruanus Karaw.”; 2 w, “Wammar, / Aru. Karavaiev”, “2566. / Coll. Karavaievi”, “ Odontomachus / ruficeps Sm. ssp. / aruanus Kar. / typus”; 14 w on 7 pins, “2566. / Coll. Karavaievi”, “ Syntypus ww / Odontomachus ruficeps / aruanus Karaw.”; 1 m, “2566. / Coll. Karavaievi”, “ Syntypus m / Odontomachus ruficeps / aruanus Karaw.”.

Material: SYNTYPES, 17 w (CASENT0916850), 1 m (Box 4) .

Notes. There are also 10w with the labels“Wammar, /Karawajew”, “2623. Coll./ Karavaievi”, “ Odontomachus / ruficeps Sm. ssp. / aruanus Kar. / typus”, but the collection number does not correspond with the numbers given in the original description. Nevertheless, these 10 workers undoubtedly are conspecific with the syntype workers.