Cataulacus traegaordhi

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Cataulacus traegaordhi Santschi, 1914 valid

Cataulacus traegaordhi Santschi, 1914e: 24, fig. 3 (w.q.m.) SOUTH AFRICA. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers, syntype queen(s), syntype male(s) (numbers not stated). Primary type localities: workers, queen, male South Africa: Natal, Zululand, Dukudu, 27.vii.1905 (I. Trägårdh) (by restriction of Wheeler, 1922: 917). Primary type depositories: MRAC, NHMB. Primary type specimen: CASENT0912571. Type notes: Other syntype locality: workers South Africa: Natal, Umfolosi, 6.vi.1905 (I. Trägårdh).

Junior synonym of Cataulacus pygmaeus: Bolton, 1974a: 48
Status as species: Arnold, 1917: 399; Wheeler, 1922: 199, 917; Santschi, 1924b: 220; Emery, 1924f: 297; Santschi, 1935b: 273; Weber, 1943d: 326; Bernard, 1953b: 252; Bolton, 1982: 358 (in key), 359; Bolton, 1995b: 139; Hita Garcia et al., 2013: 209.
Senior synonym of Cataulacus marleyi: Bolton, 1982: 359; Bolton, 1995b: 139.
Senior synonym of Cataulacus pygmaeus suddensis: Bolton, 1982: 359; Bolton, 1995b: 139.
Senior synonym of Cataulacus traegaordhi ugandensis: Bolton, 1982: 359; Bolton, 1995b: 139.

Junior synonyms

Cataulacus marleyi Forel, 1914
Cataulacus pygmaeus suddensis Weber, 1943
Cataulacus traegaordhi ugandensis Santschi, 1914

Citations

Arnold, G. 1917. A monograph of the Formicidae of South Africa. Part III. Myrmicinae. Annals of the South African Museum 14:271-402. PDF
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
Hita Garcia, F.; Wiesel, E.; Fischer, G. 2013. The ants of Kenya (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)—faunal overview, first species checklist, bibliography, accounts for all genera, and discussion on taxonomy and zoogeography. Journal of East African Natural History 101 (2):127-222. PDF
Santschi, F. 1914e. Meddelanden från Göteborgs Musei Zoologiska Afdelning. 3. Fourmis du Natal et du Zoulouland récoltées par le Dr. I. Trägårdh. Göteborgs Kungliga Vetenskaps och Vitterhets Samhälles Handlingar 15:1-44.
Santschi, F. 1924b. Descriptions de nouveaux Formicides africains et notes diverses. II. Revue Zoologique Africaine (Brussels) 12:195-224. PDF
Santschi, F. 1935b. Hymenoptera. I. Formicidae. Mission Scientifique de l'Omo 2:255-277.
Weber, N. A. 1943d. The ants of the Imatong Mountains, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 93:263-389. 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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