The Ants of Africa
Genus Cataulacus
Cataulacus adpressus Bolton

Cataulacus adpressus Bolton

return to key {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type location Ghana (Bolton, 1974a: 30, illustrated, head and dorsal alitrunk, worker); holotype worker only, collected by pkd at Bunso (D. Leston, 8.vii.1969) .

{Cataulacus adpressus}Bolton's description is at {original description}.

WORKER - TL 3.5 mm; notable for the appressed hairs on all dorsal surfaces, although sparse, easily visible on clypeus, propodeum, postpetiole and gaster. Somewhat similar shape and profile to vorticus but head narrower.
Cataulacus adpressusThe photomontage of the holotype is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0900267
The gaster has been lost since the original description.
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