Cataulacus lobatus Mayr
Type
location Cameroun (Mayr, 1895: 126, illustrated, worker)
collected at Kriegsschiffhafen, by Brauns, 15.iii.1892; also known
from Zaïre; worker only known
.
Mayr's
(1895) description is at .
Bolton's modern description (1974a) is at
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WORKER - TL 6.1 mm, distinguished as in key by lobed postpetiole
(Bolton, 1974a: 23, illustrated full face head and dorsal alitrunk).
It (as Cataulachus lobata) was among the non-dominant
species recorded in the Cameroun forest canopy studies at
Campo by Dejean and
colleagues. They noted it as nesting in the middle stratum only
(hollowed branches) with 12 findings on 30 trees examined (9 findings
were on the tree Dialium pachyphyllum, of which 15 were
examined). |