Cataulacus reticulatus

Smith, F., 1858, Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part VI. Formicidae., London: British Museum : 196-197

publication ID

8127

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6297406

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Cataulacus reticulatus
status

 

6. Cataulacus reticulatus View in CoL   HNS .

Worker. Length 1 1/2 - 2 lines. - Black: finely reticulated, the abdomen very delicately so; the margins of the head and thorax crenulated, the latter armed with two long, stout, straight, parallel spines; the antennae short, thick and clavate; the clypeus widely emarginate, the lateral margins of the head with a minute angular spine or tooth before the eyes. Thorax: the anterior margin slightly rounded; the sides rounded, the margins with a short tooth anteriorly and posteriorly; the anterior tibiae and tarsi, and the apical joints of the intermediate and posterior tarsi ferrugi- nous. Abdomen ovate, margined at the sides and emarginate at the base.

Var. minor. The scape, apical joint of the flagellum, the head, before the eyes, and the legs, ferruginous.

Hab. Borneo (Sarawak). (Coll. W. W. Saunders, Esq.)

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

Genus

Cataulacus

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