Small pugnacious ant
Anoplolepis steingroeveri
The small pugnacious ant is a dark ant from southern Africa. Pugnacious means always ready for a fight. It looks a lot like its cousin, the common pugnacious ant.
Lives in
Southern Africa: South Africa, Lesotho, Botswana and Namibia
What does it eat?
Like most ants, it eats small creatures and sweet things it finds.
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)
Small pugnacious ant about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
It lives in South Africa, Lesotho, Botswana and Namibia.
2
Its cousin has a checkerboard pattern on its back end. The pattern comes from tiny hairs that lie in different directions and catch the light.
3
This ant does not have that checkerboard shine, which helps tell the two apart.
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Most asked questions about Small pugnacious ant
?Where does the small pugnacious ant live?
In southern Africa.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Anoplolepis steingroeveri
- Group
- Ants
- Family
- Formicidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Formicidae
- Lives on
- Africa
- Also known as
- Black pugnacious ant
Where the facts come from
- Anoplolepis steingroeveri (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 April Nobile. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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