Cataulacus pygmaeus suddensis

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Cataulacus pygmaeus suddensis
Scientific classification (junior synonym of Cataulacus traegaordhi)
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Tribe: Crematogastrini
Genus: Cataulacus
Species: Cataulacus pygmaeus suddensis
Weber, 1943

This taxon is not in use as it is currently considered to be a junior synonym of Cataulacus traegaordhi.

Nomenclature

The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.

  • suddensis. Cataulacus pygmaeus subsp. suddensis Weber, 1943c: 378 (w.m.) SUDAN. Junior synonym of traegaordhi: Bolton, 1982: 359.

References

  • Bolton, B. 1982. Afrotropical species of the myrmecine ant genera Cardiocondyla, Leptothorax, Melissotarsus, Messor and Cataulacus (Formicidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology, 46: 307-370 (page 359, Junior synonym of traegaordhi)
  • Weber, N. A. 1943d. The ants of the Imatong Mountains, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 93: 263-389 (page 378, worker, male described)