Anochetus rugosus

[2] Anochetus rugosus Brown (1964) showed that Anochetus jacobsoni Menozzi (preoccupied by A. jacobsoni Forel = princeps) is a subjective synonym of A. rugosus F. Smith. Donisthorpe already had needlessly proposed a new name, A. menozzii, for the homonym, and Baroni Urbani did it again in 1971 when he published the replacement name A. ineditus. The summary synonym of this distinctive species is thus: Anochetus rugosus (F. Smith) 1857 (not 1858) = A. beccarii Emery 1884 = A. jacobsoni Menozzi 1939, not Forel 1911 = A. menozzii Donisthorpe 1941 = A. ineditus Baroni Urbani 1971. I took this species in lowland rain forest about 21 km west of Batulitjin, southeastern Kalimantan (Borneo). The nest was a small one, consisting of a dealate queen, 5 or 6 workers, and meager brood under the loose bark of a tall rotten stump from which were growing mosses, liverworts and other small plants.Published as part of Brown, WL Jr.,, 1978, Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. Part VI. Ponerinae, tribe Ponerini, subtribe Odontomachiti. Section B. Genus Anochetus and bibliography., pp. 549-638 in Studia Entomologica 20 on pages 575-57