Genus Ochetellus (Dolichoderinae)

• Ochetellus Shattuck, 1992a: 16. Type species: Hypoclinea glabra Mayr, by original designation.

• OVERVIEW.   This genus has 4 species that are found in the Oriental and Australian regions. Its members are epigaeic generalized foragers. One species is adventive in North America (Brown, 2000: 59 in Agosti, Majer, et. al. Ants, standard methods for measuring and monitoring biodiversity).
• ZOOGEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS.  Nearctic, Palearctic, Malagasy, Indo-Australian, Australasian.
• RECOGNITION.   Clypeus with a broad, shallow concavity on medial anterior margin. Metanotal impression forming a narrow, distinct notch in the relatively flat dorsal surface of the mesosoma. Propodeum with declivitous face concave; in lateral view, sharply angulate at the juncture of the basal and declivitous faces. Petiolar scale vertical, not inclined anteriorly, and reaching upwards almost to the level of the propodeum.
• TRIBE.  Dolichoderini.
• TAXONOMY.   Shattuck, 1992c: 129–134, figs. 121–127 (description of w.q.m., diagnosis of l., distribution map, figures (full face and lateral views) w.q.m.) .— Shattuck, 1994: 131–134 (catalog) .—Shattuck, 1999: 77–79, figs. 360–363.

• glaber. Hypoclinea glabra Mayr, G. 1862: 705 (w.m.) . [Australia, New South Wales, Sydney; BMNH] Mayr, G. 1876: 81 (q.) . Current subspecies nominal plus clarithorax, consimilis, and sommeri.

• DISTRIBUTION. Florida (Winter Park); Australian and Oriental regions.
• TAXONOMY. Mayr, G. 1865: 61 (description w.m.) .— Brown, W.L. 1958h: 40–41 (also biological notes, New Zealand, Australia) .