The Ants of Africa
Genus Cataulacus
Cataulacus tardus Santschi
{Cataulacus tardus}

Cataulacus tardus Santschi

return to key {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type location Guinea (Santschi, 1914d: 372, illustrated, worker), holotype from Mamou, collected by F. Silvestri, 24.viii.1912; junior synonym schoutedeni (Santschi, 1919c: 248, worker & queen) from Zaïre, collected at Congo da Lemba by H. Mayné; (see Bolton, 1995) .

Santschi's (1914d) description is at {original description}. Santschi's (1919c) description of schoutedeni is at {original description}. Bolton's modern description (1974a) is at {original description}

{unavailable due to copyright}WORKER - TL 5.4-6.8 mm; distinctive features as in key (Bolton, 1974a: 27, illustrated full face head and dorsal alitrunk).

Known from several collections in Ghana; at CRIG (C.A. Collingwood) and S. Fomang (D. Leston).

Also from Cameroun (Bolton, 1982) and Zaïre (Bolton, 1974a).
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