Cataulacus moloch Bolton

Type location Ghana (Bolton, 1982: 361, illustrated, profile of head, alitrunk and pedicel, worker) collected at Pankese (C.A. Collingwood, 24.xi.68); also one paratype .

Bolton's description is at .

Nigeria specimen (as Cataulacus brevisetosus Forel, Taylor, 1979: 7). WORKER. TL 3.1 mm, HL 0.78, HW 0.74, SL 0.38, PW 0.60
Others: TL 3.4, HL 0.90, HW 0.80, SL 0.42, PW 0.60 .
Occipital corners denticulate with a second denticle on the occipital margin close to the corner. Sides of head behind the eyes usually minutely denticulate. Dorsum of head and pronotum finely and densely reticulate-rugose. Remainder of alitrunk usually more rugose longitudinally, as are the petiole and postpetiole. Gaster dorsally finely and densely reticulate-punctate. Alitrunk marginate laterally, especially on the pronotum. Pronotal margin with a row of small or minute denticles, plus a few also on the mesonotal and propodeal margins and occasionally on the outer borders of the propodeal spines. The propodeal spines are short but distinct. The subpostpetiolar process is a simple blunt spine. On the clypeus and usually on the remainder of the dorsum of the head the hairs are short and stout, clavate or sub-orbicular. The remainder of the body has numerous short, stout simple hairs.
My collections included the 2 paratype workers listed by Bolton (1982) from cocoa tree 47-16 at Onipe block, Cocoa Research Institute of Nigeria, Idi Ayunre, where it was seen several times in the 1975 wet season. Otherwise (as Cataulacus brevisetosus) my staff and I noted that it was quite commonly found on cocoa and shrub vegetation, nesting in hollow twigs, and tending Homoptera, it was also found on coffee (for instance at the coffee plots, SC and S8/2 and on edge vegetation at W22). Earlier found at CRIN (B. Bolton), and at Araromi (Bolton, 1974a), and possibly one of the unnamed species in Booker (1968).

The photomontage of the holotype is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0900270

Oxford University Museum specimens

Cataulacus moloch B Taylor det.	Benin J-F Vayssieres RVA 3096.9	9.xi.2011 Kika-Beterou 09°14'07'' N 02°11'52'' E	Isoberlinia doka beating	1
Cataulacus moloch B Taylor det.	Liberia E Poirier Yekepa Camp 4 SLAM 2	6.iv.2013 Nimba County 07°33’04" N 08°33’17" E	SLAM trap Floodplain & marsh 501 m asl	1
Cataulacus moloch B Taylor det.	Liberia E Poirier Yekepa Camp 4 SLAM 4	6.iv.2013 Nimba County 07°33’04" N 08°33’17" E	SLAM trap Floodplain & marsh 501 m asl	3

The photomontage is of a worker from Benin, Kika-Beterou; collector A Fotso Kuate (RVA 3096).

The photomontage is of a worker from Liberia, Yekepa Camp 4; collector E Poiriet (Camp 4 SLAM 2).