Cataulacus theobromicola

Nothing is known about the biology of Cataulacus theobromicola.

Identification
A member of the huberi group. The overall impression obtained from Santschi's description and figure is of a species closely related to Cataulacus pullus but separated from it by the structure of the lateral pronotal margins and the relative shortness of the propodeal spines. (Bolton 1974)

Key to Afrotropical Cataulacus Species

Distribution
This taxon was described, and is only known, from Democratic Republic of Congo.

Nomenclature

 *  theobromicola. Cataulacus theobromicola Santschi, 1939c: 8, fig. 2 (w.) DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO. See also: Bolton, 1974a: 28.

Worker
Bolton (1974) - TL 6.5, CI 118, OI 27 (CI and OI are approximated from the figure accompanying the original description).

Occipital corners with a single tooth; the occipital margin not denticulate and apparently without an occipital crest of any form. Sides of head behind eyes crenulate posteriorly, close to the corners. Pronotum marginate laterally, the anterior and posterior angles of the margins acute but not projecting. Pronotal margins without denticles but with a single triangular tooth in the anterior halves of their lengths. Mesonotum and propodeum not marginate, without denticles. Promesonotal suture and metanotal groove feebly marked by impressions. Propodeal spines short but acute.

Entirety of head and body dorsally finely reticulate-punctate, the head and alitrunk with a fine rugoreticulum which is finer and denser upon the alitrunk than upon the head. Petiole dorsally very coarsely longitudinally rugose. Sides of head behind eyes with a row of laterally projecting short, stout hairs. Hairs absent from dorsum of head and alitrunk; present around mouth and at apex of gaster.

Type Material
Bolton (1974) - Holotype worker, ZAIRE: Gazi, in cocoa tree, xii. 1937 (Beinaert) (location of type not known).