Cataulacus pullus Santschi

Holotype from Congo (Santschi, 1910c: 367, illustrated, worker), from Brazzaville, collector A. Weiss; junior synonyms coriaceous (Stitz, 1910: 138, illustrated, worker) from Cameroun, collected at Mundame, by L. Conradt; and orientalis (Santschi, 1914b: 108, worker) from Kenya. Material from Zaïre also seen by Bolton (1974a) (see Bolton, 1995) .

Santschi's (1910c) description is at . Stitz's (1910) description of coriaceous is at . Bolton's modern description (1974a) is at

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.