The Ants of Africa
Genus Cataulacus
Cataulacus cestus Bolton
{Cataulacus cestus}

Cataulacus cestus Bolton

return to key {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server}Type location Zaïre, Ituri Forest, Beni-Irumu, ii.1948, N. A. Weber (Bolton, 1982: 360, not illustrated, worker). Known from holotype and one paratype worker .

Bolton's description is at {original description}.

WORKER - TL 4.0 mm; diagnosis as in key; stout straight hairs on dorsum of head very dense, looking like a bristly pelt; across mid-length of face at least 10 hairs.


The photomontage of the holotype is collated from http://mcz-28168.oeb.harvard.edu/mcz/FMPro?-DB=Image.fm&-Lay=web&-Format=images.htm&Species_ID=32733&-Find
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