Cataulacus flagitiosus

Authors :: Smith, F.
Publication Year :: 1861
Publisher :: Zenodo, 1861.
Abstract: 1. Cataulacus flagitiosus. C. niger; capite striato, angulis posticis spinosis; thorace spinis duabus acutis elongatis armato; abdomine cordato. Worker. Length 2 1 / 2 lines. Opake-black; the head and thorax above, with a coarse irregular striation, intermixed with a rough granulation, the margins of the head crenulated, the posterior angles acute and slightly produced. Thorax armed posteriorly with two stout diverging spines. Abdomen oblong-cordate, finely and irregularly striated; sprinkled with distant short white erect setae; the nodes of the peduncle rugose. Hab, Celebes (Tondano).<br />Published as part of Smith, F., 1861, Catalogue of hymenopterous insects collected by Mr. A. R. Wallace in the Islands of Ceram, Celebes, Ternate, and Gilolo., pp. 36-48 in Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 6 on pages 49-50