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Blood-spotted Sugar Ant

Camponotus cruentatus

Easily confused with

Study checks a spoken answer against these, and tells you which one you named.

Where it is recorded

Records by month in Spain.January 13, February 44, March 207, April 599, May 580, June 367, July 206, August 138, September 91, October 105, November 65, December 26.
Spain2,441
France1,173
Portugal860
Cataluña/Catalunya695
Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur639
Comunidad de Madrid637
Occitanie480
Andalucía344
Castilla y León217
Castilla-La Mancha151

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Behavioral

  • EusocialLives in colonies with division of labor and cooperative brood careFrom its classification

Ecological

  • ColonialFrom its classification

Physical

  • ExoskeletonHas a hard external skeletonFrom its classification

Classification

KingdomAnimals · Animalia
PhylumArthropods · Arthropoda
ClassInsects · Insecta
OrderAnts, Bees, Wasps, and Sawflies · Hymenoptera
FamilyAnts · Formicidae
GenusCarpenter Ants, Typical Sugar Ants and Allies · Camponotus

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Blood-spotted Sugar Ant with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.