The Ants of Africa
Genus Cataulacus
Cataulacus pullus Santschi

Cataulacus pullus Santschi

return to key {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server}Holotype from Congo (Cataulacus pullus n. sp., Santschi, 1910c: 367, illustrated, worker), from Brazzaville, collector A. Weiss = see below
junior synonyms
coriaceous (Cataulacus coriaceous n. sp., Stitz, 1910: 138, illustrated, worker) from Cameroun, collected at Mundame, by L. Conradt
orientalis (Cataulacus pullus Santschi var. orientalis nov., Santschi, 1914b: 108, worker) from Kenya - see http://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?code=casent0912565.

Material from Zaïre also seen by Bolton (1974a: 26; with synonymies of coriaceous and orientalis) (see Bolton, 1995) .


{Cataulacus pullus}Santschi's (1910c) description is at {original description}. Stitz's (1910) description of coriaceous is at {original description}. Bolton's modern description (1974a) is at {original description}


{Cataulacus pullus}WORKER - TL 5.3-7.0 mm; diagnostic features as in key (Bolton, 1974a: 26, illustrated, full-face view and dorsal alitrunk).

Santschi (1914b) noted orientalis new variety as - Worker, TL 5 mm; black, scape red; tibiae of first pair and ends of tarsi dull red; sculpturation on head and alitrunk slightly stronger; head distinctly wider than long (slightly wider than the type); propodeal spines more curved and less raised; Kenya, Voi, altitude 600m, station 60, March 1912 [Alluaud & Jeannel]; one worker.

Bernard (1952) reported several findings in Guinea; especially the low regions; N'Zo, Yalanzou, Yanlé, Zouépo forest, station F 33 (all Lamotte), "a little abundant". He regarded the specimens as intermediate between the type form from Congo and variety orientalis; and noted they had more striation on the base of the gaster than other known forms. As well as noting it as a species new for French West Africa, he recorded it as also found at Lagos, Nigeria, in a dead palm (collector A. Hollande). These findings appear to have been overlooked by Bolton (1974a), despite his reference to Bernard's treatise.


Cataulacus pullusThe photomontage of the type worker is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0912564


Cataulacus pullusThe photomontage of a worker from Kenya is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0217088

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