Cataulacus erinaceus Stitz

Type location Equatorial Guinea (Stitz, 1910, illustrated; Forel, 1913h: 350, queen) collected at Alen. by Tessmann; junior synonym crassispina from Congo (Santschi, 1917b, worker) from Goda, collected by P. Chaleuf; plus material of nomen nudum princeps from Zaïre (Emery, in Forel, 1909b: 71) (see Bolton, 1995) .

Stitz's (1910) description is at and . Forel's (1913h) description of the queen is at Santschi's (1917d) description of crassispina is at Bolton's modern description (1974a) is at

WORKER - TL 8.1-9.5 mm; diagnostic features as in key; very easily recognisable from size and sculpturation (Bolton, 1974a, illustrated full-face head and dorsal alitrunk); worker only known.

Forel (1909b) recorded the finding of Cataulacus princeps Emery, from Sankuru, Zaïre, by Luja, but with no other information. Later (1915c), he recorded it from Batiamponde, Zaïre, collected by Kohl, and "under bark".

In Ghana from the Atewa Forest Reserve (C.A. Collingwood; D. Leston).

Syntypes from Cameroun, at Mundame (L. Conradt, ? in Stitz, 1910); others from Meyo (C.A. Collingwood). Also collected widely from - Liberia, at Belleyella, Degain and Du River (W.M. Mann); and eastwards to Zaïre (Bolton, 1974a).

Reported from Guinea, Mt. Nimba area, Mount Tô, four workers from station T 236, forest (Bernard (1952).

Apparently a deep forest species, known from large forest trees, and pictured in Hölldobler & Wilson (1990, page 101).

The photomontage is of a specimen from the Central African Republic, Dzanga-Sangha NP; site EB; 02°49’07.9" N 16°09’28.3" E 377m Camp 2; A vu : 11h-14h30, abords du camp; 30.01.2005, collector Philippe Annoyer. Other images can be seen in the folder at -

Other (poorer quality) images of specimens from Cameroun - south-western tropical coastal forest area between Edéa and Campo (McKey Wolbachia project) - Cameroon 103 from location BOU, 24 April 2001, on an understorey tree. can be seen in the folder at -