Cataulacus praetextus ( Smith, 1867 )

Hamer, Matthew T., Lee, Jonathan Hon Chung, Tse, Cheung Yau Leo, Silva, Thiago S. R. & Guénard, Benoit, 2022, Remarkable diversity in a little red dot: a comprehensive checklist of known ant species in Singapore (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) with notes on ecology and taxonomy, Asian Myrmecology (e 015006) 15, pp. 1-152 : 74

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.20362/am.015006
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15474240
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B68783-311C-FFEC-FF0F-7B1CFE6AFB97
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Cataulacus praetextus ( Smith, 1867 )
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Cataulacus praetextus ( Smith, 1867) View in CoL

Material examined. Mandai Road , plot 1, 1.41312, 103.80185, 6-8 Dec 2016, G.W. Yong et al. leg., M1D18GPb2421, ZRC _ ENT00048642 View Materials GoogleMaps ; Nee Soon Swamp Forest , NS 1, 1°23’00.3”N, 103°48’46.5”E, 28 Mar-4 Apr 2012, J. Puniamoorthy et al. leg., malaise trap, Reg. 29157, ZRC _ BDP0014626 View Materials GoogleMaps .

Material not physically examined. Alate queen, FOCOL2122 ( ZMHB) [type queen of Cataulacus praetextus var. sumatrensis – now junior synonym of C. praetextus ].

Literature. Viehmeyer (1916), Overbeck (1924) [both as C. praetextus var. sumatrensis ].

Localities. Jurong Road; Mandai Road; Nee Soon Swamp Forest.

Habitat/Ecology. Workers of this species were found together with Tetramorium obtusidens Viehmeyer, 1916 and Technomyrmex albipes ( Smith, 1861) in the same withered branch of a roadside tree; workers have also been collected from Nepenthes pitcher cups. The species appears mostly associated with old/ mature secondary forests in Singapore, including swamp forest.