Hairy Sugar Ant

Camponotus niveosetosus · Order: Hymenoptera · Family: Formicidae

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Hairy Sugar Ant
Photo: Nicola van Berkel, CC BY-SA

Their antennae and feet are reddish-brown and the mandibles are a dark reddish-red colour. They live in gardens, fynbos, grassland, savanna and various woodlands from sea level up to middle elevations, and they are native to a large part of the eastern Afrotropics.

Source: Wikipedia

How to recognize it

Their antennae and tarsi are reddish-brown, and the mandibles are dark castaneous red.

Source: Wikipedia

More photos

Hairy Sugar Ant photo 3
Photo: Wynand Uys, CC BY
Hairy Sugar Ant photo 4
Photo: magriet b, CC BY-SA
Hairy Sugar Ant photo 5
Photo: Wynand Uys, CC BY

Same family (Formicidae)

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Sources

  • Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camponotus_niveosetosus

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Text written 2026-10-23 from the sources above and checked sentence by sentence against them. Data fetched 2026-10-23.

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