Cataulacus pullus Santschi
  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)  .
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 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.
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Santschi's
(1910c) description is at 
The photomontage of the type worker is collated from 
The photomontage of a worker from Kenya is collated from