Golden-tailed sugar ant at Cook, ACT
Identification history
| Camponotus suffusus | 17 Dec 2021 | JonLewis | ||
| Camponotus aeneopilosus | 16 Dec 2021 | CathB |
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JonLewis
wrote:
17 Dec 2021
Hi Cath, this is the other golden tailed sugar ant, Camponotus suffusus. You can see some of the ants in your photos have reddish heads, common for some Camponotus suffusus, but Camponotus aeneopilosus always has a black head. Cheers, Jon
Location information
- Coordinates 149.071618-35.266065
- Maps Mount Painter
- Places Cook, ACT
Sighting information
- 16 - 100 Abundance
- 11 Dec 2021 10:07 AM Recorded on
- CathB Recorded by
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Insects Ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) CathB Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
Additional information
- 5mm to 12mm Animal size
Species information
- Camponotus suffusus Scientific name
- Golden-tailed sugar ant Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 899.01m Recorded at altitude
- 225 images trained Machine learning
- External link More information
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- Images or audio
- More than one media file
- Verified by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
- GPS evidence of location
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