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Cataulacus
Sign in to saveCataulacus is a genus of ants in the subfamily Myrmicinae. The genus is distributed in the Paleotropical regions, mainly in the Afrotropics. Most species are found in forests, but a few are known from more open and arid habitats.
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- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassInsecta
- OrderHymenoptera
- FamilyFormicidae
Worker. - Small or medium-sized, rather flat, opaque or subopaque, black ants, with coarse sculpture and the head and thorax often dentate or spinulate on the sides. Antennae in all three phases 11-jointed with 3-jointed club and apically flattened or dilated scape. Head on each side with a deep scrohe situated beneath and external to the eye and capable of accommodating the whole of the folded antenna. The frontal carinae are far apart, anil diverge, but border the scrobes only at the base. The clypeus Ls wedged in between the frontal carinae and is not sharply delimited posteriorly. Thoracic sutures often indistinct or obsolete. Epinotum armed with spines. Petiole and postpetiole stout, the former usually more or less cuboidal, with a laminate process below, the latter subglobular. Gaster elliptical or suboblong, flattened, the first segment forming its whole dorsal surface. Legs rather short, the femora and tibiae incrassated. The female, though larger, closely resembles the worker. The pronotum is large and forms a considerable portion of the thoracic dorsum. Wings without a discoidal cell, with a single cubital and a narrowly open radial cell. The male resembles the female and
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Cataulacus is a genus of ants in the subfamily Myrmicinae. The genus is distributed in the Paleotropical regions, mainly in the Afrotropics. Most species are found in forests, but a few are known from more open and arid habitats.
==Species== Cataulacus adpressus Bolton, 1974 †Cataulacus anthracinus (Heer, 1849) Cataulacus bequaerti Forel, 1913 Cataulacus boltoni Snelling, 1979 Cataulacus brevisetosus Forel, 1901 Cataulacus catuvolcus Bolton, 1974 Cataulacus centrurus Bolton, 1982 Cataulacus cestus Bolton, 1982 Cataulacus chapmani Bolton, 1974 Cataulacus difficilis Santschi, 1916 Cataulacus ebrardi Forel, 1886 Cataulacus egenus Santschi, 1911 Cataulacus elongatus Santschi, 1924 Cataulacus erinaceus Stitz, 1910 Cataulacus flagitiosus Smith, 1862 Cataulacus fricatidorsus Santschi, 1914 Cataulacus granulatus (Latreille, 1802) Cataulacus greggi Bolton, 1974 Cataulacus guineensis Smith, 1853 Cataulacus hispidulus Smith, 1865 Cataulacus horridus Smith, 1857 Cataulacus huberi André, 1890 Cataulacus impressus Bolton, 1974 Cataulacus inermis Santschi, 1924 Cataulacus intrudens (Smith, 1876) Cataulacus jacksoni Bolton, 1982 Cataulacus jeanneli Santschi, 1914 Cataulacus kenyensis Santschi, 1935 Cataulacus kohli Mayr, 1895 Cataulacus latissimus Emery, 1893 Cataulacus latus Forel, 1891 Cataulacus lobatus Mayr, 1895 Cataulacus longinodus Forel, 1912 Cataulacus lujae Forel, 1911 Cataulacus marginatus Bolton, 1974 Cataulacus mckeyi Snelling, 1979 Cataulacus micans Mayr, 1901 Cataulacus mocquerysi André, 1889 Cataulacus moloch Bolton, 1982 Cataulacus muticus Emery, 1889 Cataulacus nenassus Bolton, 1974 Cataulacus oberthueri Forel, 1891 Cataulacus pilosus Santschi, 1920 †Cataulacus planiceps Emery, 1891 †Cataulacus plebeius De Andrade & Baroni Urbani, 2004 Cataulacus pompom Snelling, 1979 Cataulacus porcatus Emery, 1899 Cataulacus praetextus Smith, 1867 Cataulacus pullus Santschi, 1910 Cataulacus pygmaeus André, 1890 Cataulacus regularis Forel, 1892 Cataulacus resinosus Viehmeyer, 1913 Cataulacus reticulatus Smith, 1857 Cataulacus satrap Bolton, 1982 Cataulacus setosus Smith, 1860 †Cataulacus silvestrii Emery, 1891 Cataulacus simoni Emery, 1893 Cataulacus striativentris Santschi, 1924 Cataulacus taprobanae Smith, 1853 Cataulacus tardus Santschi, 1914 Cataulacus taylori Bolton, 1982 Cataulacus tenuis Emery, 1899 Cataulacus theobromicola Santschi, 1939 Cataulacus traegaordhi Santschi, 1914 Cataulacus voeltzkowi Forel, 1907 Cataulacus vorticus Bolton, 1974 Cataulacus wasmanni Forel, 1897 Cataulacus weissi Santschi, 1913 Cataulacus wissmannii Forel, 1894