• Lectotype designation: Brown, 1976c: 135.
• Forel, 1897b: 298 (q.); França et al., 2024: 115 (q.)
• Subspecies of Odontomachus haematodus: Emery, 1890c: 44 (footnote); Emery, 1893m: 50 (footnote); Emery, 1895d: 268; Forel, 1897b: 298; Forel, 1899b: 20; Wheeler, 1905c: 82, 122; Wheeler, 1906j: 349; Forel, 1908: 340; Forel, 1909a: 252; Forel, 1910b: 10; Wheeler, 1910a: 562; Emery, 1911e: 115; Forel, 1912d: 28; Wheeler, 1913b: 482; Wheeler, 1913d: 113; Wheeler, 1913e: 240; Forel, 1913m: 207; Wheeler & Mann, 1914: 17; Wheeler, 1916f: 323; Wheeler, 1917g: 458; Luederwaldt, 1918: 36; Wheeler, 1919e: 303; Mann, 1920b: 404; Wheeler, 1922e: 4; Borgmeier, 1923: 78; Wheeler, 1923d: 3; Menozzi, 1929b: 2; Menozzi & Russo, 1930: 151; Smith, 1930a: 2; Wheeler, 1932a: 3; Wheeler, 1934f: 139; Wheeler, 1935g: 16; Wheeler, 1936c: 196; Wheeler, 1937b: 446; Smith, 1939d: 127 (redescription); Creighton, 1950a: 56; Smith, 1951c: 787; Smith, 1954c: 2; Smith, 1958c: 112; Smith, 1967a: 348; Kempf, 1972b: 171; Alayo, 1974: 31.
• Status as species: Smith, 1858a: 79; Roger, 1861a: 26; Roger, 1863b: 22; Mayr, 1863a: 438; Dalla Torre, 1893: 51; Taylor & Wilson, 1962: 142; Brown, 1976c: 104, 135; Smith, 1979: 1345; Brandão, 1991: 363; Bolton, 1995b: 296; Guénard & Economo, 2015: 228; Wetterer et al., 2016: 14; Lubertazzi, 2019: 138; França et al., 2024: 113 (redescription).
• Material of the unavailable names Odontomachus haematodus insularis pallens, Odontomachus haematodus insularis wheeleri referred here by Brown, 1976c: 104; Brandão, 1991: 363; França et al., 2024: 113.

Obsolete combinations

• Odontomachus haematodus insularis

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