Cataulacus erinaceus

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Cataulacus erinaceus Stitz, 1910 valid

Cataulacus erinaceus Stitz, 1910: 134, fig. 3 (w.) EQUATORIAL GUINEA, CAMEROON. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: >3 syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type localities: 3 workers Equatorial Guinea (“Spanish Guinea”): Alen (G.T. Tessmann) (invalid restriction of type locality by Wheeler, 1922: 913; no lectotype designated), “a number” of workers Cameroon: Mundame (L. Conradt). Primary type depositories: MHNG, MNHU, NHMB. Primary type specimen: CASENT0909222.

Forel, 1913i: 350 (q.)
Status as species: Forel, 1913b: 315; Forel, 1913f: 668; Forel, 1913i: 350; Forel, 1915c: 345; Forel, 1916: 427; Wheeler, 1922: 198, 913; Emery, 1924f: 296; Bernard, 1953b: 252; Bolton, 1974a: 52 (redescription); Bolton, 1982: 356 (in key); Bolton, 1995b: 138.
Senior synonym of Cataulacus erinaceus crassispina: Bolton, 1974a: 52; Bolton, 1995b: 138.
Material of the nomen nudum Cataulacus princeps referred here by Wheeler, 1922: 913; Emery, 1924f: 296; Bolton, 1974a: 52; Bolton, 1995b: 138.

Junior synonyms

Cataulacus erinaceus crassispina Santschi, 1917

Citations

Bernard, F. 1953b ("1952"). La réserve naturelle intégrale du Mt Nimba. XI. Hyménoptères Formicidae. Mémoires de l'Institut Français d'Afrique Noire 19:165-270. PDF
Bolton, B. 1974a. A revision of the Palaeotropical arboreal ant genus Cataulacus F. Smith (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology 30:1-105. PDF
Bolton, B. 1982. Afrotropical species of the myrmicine ant genera Cardiocondyla, Leptothorax, Melissotarsus, Messor and Cataulacus (Formicidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology 45:307-370. PDF
Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Emery, C. 1924f ("1922"). Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [concl.]. Genera Insectorum 174C:207-397. PDF
Forel, A. 1913b. Formicides du Congo Belge récoltés par MM. Bequaert, Luja, etc. Revue Zoologique Africaine (Brussels) 2:306-351. PDF
Forel, A. 1913f. Quelques fourmis des Indes, du Japon et d'Afrique. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 21:659-673. PDF
Forel, A. 1913i. Quelques fourmis du Musée du Congo Belge (1). Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 57:347-359. PDF
Forel, A. 1915c. Formicides d'Afrique et d'Amérique nouveaux ou peu connus. IIe partie. Bulletin de la Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles 50:335-364. PDF
Forel, A. 1916. Fourmis du Congo et d'autres provenances récoltées par MM. Hermann Kohl, Luja, Mayné, etc. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 24:397-460. PDF
Stitz, H. 1910. Westafrikanische Ameisen. I. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin 5:125-151. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.

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