Cataulacus insularis

Smith, F., 1857, Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects collected at Sarawak, Borneo; Mount Ophir, Malacca; and at Singapore, by A. R. Wallace., Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 2, pp. 42-88 : 80

publication ID

2588

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6297698

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Cataulacus insularis
status

 

1. Cataulacus insularis   HNS .

C. niger; vertice spinis duabus postice armato; alis flavo-hyalinis; metathorace bispinoso; abdomine cordata.

Male. Length 3 lines. Black: head and thorax rugose; the antennae, the eyes, the mandibles, the tibiae and the tarsi, ferruginous; the palpi pale; the eyes very large and prominent; the clypeus produced and broadly truncate in front; the hinder margin of the vertex straight, margined, and having the posterior lateral angles produced into stout acute spines; the outer margins of the spines serrated; beneath are smaller spines at the lower lateral angles; the wings subhyaline and yellowish; the nervures scarcely discernible; the hinder margin of the metathorax slightly emarginate its entire width, with an acute spine at each of the lateral angles. The nodes of the abdomen rugose; the first node oblong-quadrate; the -second nearly quadrate; the abdomen reddish at the base, and, as well as the nodes, thinly sprinkled with erect whitish hairs. Hab. Borneo (Sarawak).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

Genus

Cataulacus

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