Shiny sugar ant
Camponotus cinctellus
The shiny sugar ant is an African ant with a golden shimmer. Its back end is covered with fine hairs that shine like gold in the sun. It has reddish legs.
Lives in
Eastern Africa, from Eritrea down to South Africa
What does it eat?
Like other sugar ants, it loves sweet things, and it also collects other bits of food for its nest.
How fast is it?
A garden snail about 0.05 km/h (0.03 mph)
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
Shiny sugar ant about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Every worker of this ant has the same shimmering golden hairs.
2
Its reddish legs help tell it apart from a smaller, look-alike cousin.
3
Scientists divide it into two subspecies, one first found in Mozambique and one in Congo.
you asked
Most asked questions about Shiny sugar ant
?Where does the shiny sugar ant live?
In eastern Africa, from Eritrea to South Africa.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Camponotus cinctellus
- Group
- Ants
- Family
- Formicidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Formicidae
- Lives on
- Africa
Where the facts come from
- Camponotus cinctellus (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by JMK. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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