Cataulacus
Smith, 1853
valid
masculine
Cataulacus
Smith, 1853:
225
Type-species:
Cataulacus taprobanae, by subsequent designation of Bingham, 1903: 120.
- Cataulacus in Myrmicidae, Cryptoceridae: Smith, 1853: 225; Emery, 1877b: 81.
- Cataulacus in Poneridae, Cryptoceridae: Smith, 1858a: 195.
- Cataulacus in Formicidae, Cryptoceridae: Smith, 1857a: 80; Smith, 1862d: 414.
- Cataulacus in Cryptoceridae: Smith, 1862a: 49; Smith, 1871b: 334; Smith, 1876d: 609.
- Cataulacus in Myrmicinae: Mayr, 1865: 26 [Myrmicidae]; Dalla Torre, 1893: 137.
- Cataulacus in Myrmicinae, Dacetini: Forel, 1892d: 344; Forel, 1893b: 164.
- Cataulacus in Cryptoceridae, Cataulacinae: Ashmead, 1905c: 384.
- Cataulacus in Myrmicinae, Cataulacini: Emery, 1895l: 771; Wheeler, 1910a: 142; Emery, 1914e: 42; Forel, 1917: 246; Arnold, 1917: 386; Wheeler, 1922: 665; all subsequent authors.
- Cataulacus in Myrmicinae, Crematogastrini: Ward et al., 2015: 17.
Junior synonyms
- Otomyrmex Forel, 1891
Mayr, 1865: 26 (diagnosis); Mayr, 1870a: 413 (Colombia + Panama (= New Grenada) species key, see under Procryptocerus); Forel, 1903a: 706 (India & Sri Lanka species key); Bingham, 1903: 121 (India, Sri Lanka & Burma species key); Wheeler, 1910a: 142 (diagnosis); Emery, 1914e: 39 (diagnosis (in key)); Arnold, 1917: 386 (diagnosis); Arnold, 1920a: 403 (South Africa species key); Wheeler, 1922: 197 (diagnosis); Emery, 1924f: 294, 299 (Cataulacus, C. (Otomyrmex) diagnoses); Bolton, 1974a: 7 (revision of tribe, diagnosis, all species revision; Afrotropical & Malagasy species key: 13, Oriental & Malesian species key: 59); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1976b: 59 (larvae, review & synthesis); Kugler, 1978a: 476 (sting structure); Bolton, 1982 : 354 (Afrotropical species, revised key); Bolton, 1994: 105 (synoptic classification); Bolton, 1995a: 1048 (census); Bolton, 2003: 55, 193 (diagnosis, synopsis); Cantone, 2017: 194 (brief male diagnosis)
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
- Arnold, G. 1920a. A monograph of the Formicidae of South Africa. Part IV. Myrmicinae. Annals of the South African Museum 14:403-578. PDF
- Ashmead, W. H. 1905c. A skeleton of a new arrangement of the families, subfamilies, tribes and genera of the ants, or the superfamily Formicoidea. Canadian Entomologist 37:381-384. PDF
- Bingham, C. T. 1903. The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Hymenoptera, Vol. II. Ants and Cuckoo-wasps. London: Taylor and Francis, 506 pp. 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. 1994. Identification guide to the ant genera of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 222 pp.
- Bolton, B. 1995a. A taxonomic and zoogeographical census of the extant ant taxa (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of Natural History 29:1037-1056. PDF
- Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and classification of Formicidae. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 71:1-370. PDF
- Cantone, S. 2017. Winged ants – The male. Dichotomous key to genera of winged male ants in the world. Behavioral ecology of mating flight. São Paulo: Autopubblicato, 318 pp. PDF
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- Emery, C. 1877b. Saggio di un ordinamento naturale dei Mirmicidei, e considerazioni sulla filogenesi delle formiche. Bullettino della Società Entomologica Italiana 9:67-83. PDF
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- Forel, A. 1917. Cadre synoptique actuel de la faune universelle des fourmis. Bulletin de la Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles 51:229-253. PDF
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