The Ants of Africa
Genus Cataulacus
Cataulacus micans Mayr

Cataulacus micans Mayr

return to key {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type location South Africa (Cataulacus rugosus Forel subspec. micans n. ssp., Mayr, 1901b: 27, all forms; raised to species Forel, 1914: 219); junior synonym tristiculus (Santschi, 1919b: 237, all forms) .

Mayr's (1901b) description is at {original description}. Santschi's (1919b) description of tristiculus (as a stirps of intrudens) is at {original description}. Arnold (1917: 393) gave a translation, this is at {original description}; and of tristiculus (1926: 286) at {original description}. Bolton's modern description (1974a) is at {original description}

WORKER - TL 3.3-3.7 mm (Bolton, 1974a: 46, not illustrated).
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