O. ruginodis is known to occupy coastal areas in South Florida (Deyrup et al. 1985). I have made the following collections of ruginodis in Costa Rica:
Heredia: La Selva: Collected under epiphyte mat in treefall. Tree down, long-since leafless, but trunk and branches still above surrounding veg., scattered moss/epiphyte clumps still intact.
Limon: Hitoy Cerere: Primary wet forest. Nesting in rotten log.
Limon: 25km NW Cahuita: Coconut strand along beach edge.
Puntarenas: Corcovado, San Pedrillo: foragers on ground at beach edge.
Puntarenas: Corcovado, Sirena: clearing near beach. A colony was in a bed of closely-packed plant cuttings. There were wide, flat-bottomed chambers 2cm below the soil surface in a plastic bag full of potting soil. There was a short cone built on the surface of the soil. Cavities between the bases of adjacent bags contained pupae and tending adults.
Puntarenas: Corcovado, Llorona: collecting on one of the rock islands offshore, separated from land even at low tide, vegetated on top.
West Indies, USA (Florida), Costa Rica. Costa Rica: coastal lowlands of the Atlantic coast and Osa Peninsula; La Selva; Hitoy Cerere (100m).
Taxonomic history
[First available use of Odontomachus haematodus insularis ruginodis Wheeler, 1905; unavailable (infrasubspecific) name.].Deyrup et al., 1985 PDF: 192 (m.).As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Emery, 1911e PDF: 115; Forel, 1912d PDF: 28 (in text); Wheeler, 1913b PDF: 483; Wheeler, 1913e PDF: 240; Wheeler, 1917g PDF: 458; Mann, 1920b PDF: 404; Kempf, 1972b PDF: 171.Subspecies of Odontomachus haematodus: Forel, 1912d PDF: 28; Smith, 1937 PDF: 828.Junior synonym of Odontomachus brunneus: Brown, 1976c PDF: 103.Status as species: Wilson, 1964b PDF: 4; Deyrup et al., 1985 PDF: 192; Deyrup & Trager, 1986 PDF: 214; Deyrup et al., 1989 PDF: 94; Brandão, 1991 PDF: 363; Bolton, 1995b: 297; Deyrup et al., 2000: 295; Deyrup, 2003 PDF: 45; Deyrup & Cover, 2004b PDF: 141 (in key); Wetterer & Wetterer, 2004 PDF: 215; MacGown & Forster, 2005 PDF: 67; Rodriguez, 2008 PDF: 168; Branstetter & Sáenz, 2012 PDF: 262; MacGown et al., 2014 PDF: 543 (redescription); Bezděčková et al., 2015 PDF: 124; Wetterer et al., 2016 PDF: 14; Deyrup, 2017: 30; Fernández & Guerrero, 2019 PDF: 539; Lubertazzi, 2019 10.3099/MCZ-43.1 PDF: 139.
