Anochetus altisquamis

Brown, WL Jr.,, 1978, Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. Part VI. Ponerinae, tribe Ponerini, subtribe Odontomachiti. Section B. Genus Anochetus and bibliography., Studia Entomologica 20, pp. 549-638 : 619

[42] A. altisquamis

is a short, thickset species occurring in wet coastal and montane forests in SE Brazil and N Argentina. The SW limit of the range appears to fall in the Andean foothills W and SW of Tucumán. I took it there at Horco Molle and Cerro San Xavier in 1967, under stones in wet myrtaceous forest. A male taken separately at Horco Molle by L. Stange 3-10 April 1966, now in MCZ (figs. 62, 63) is almost certainly correctly associated with the female castes, since no other Anochetus species has been found in the area.

The workers of A. altisquamis have the subapical mandibular tooth rather short and thick, and it is sometimes worn down to a subtruncate condition somewhat resembling that of A. orchidicola . A detailed listing of localities is given by Kempf and Lenko (1976).