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Banded sugar ants appear in different forms, varying from 4 to 16 millimetres (0.2 to 0.6 in) in length, making them a large species. [10] Banded sugar ants are polymorphic, and colonies have two types of workers: minor workers and major workers that have different size ranges.
Tapinoma sessile is a species of small ant that goes by the common names odorous house ant, sugar ant, stink ant, and coconut ant. [1] Their colonies are polydomous (consisting of multiple nests) and polygynous (containing multiple reproducing queens ).
Sugar ant may refer to: Carpenter ant (Camponotus spp.), a genus of large ants with worldwide distribution; Tapinoma sessile, a species of ant native to North America; Tetramorium immigrans, a species native to Europe and introduced to North America; Lepisiota capensis, a species of Old World ant
Diagram of the pavement ant. (a = queen; b = queen after loss of wings; c = male, d = worker, e = larva; g = pupa; f = head of larva more highly magnified) Tetramorium immigrans —also known as the immigrant pavement ant , pavement ant , [ note 1 ] and the sugar ant in parts of North America [ 1 ] [ note 2 ] —is an ant native to Europe ...
In 1933, William Morton Wheeler classified the black-headed sugar ant as a subspecies of the banded sugar ant (Camponotus consobrinus), but it was later revived as a full species in 1934. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] The ant is a member of the Camponotus nigriceps species group , which also includes C. clarior , C. consobrinus , C. dryandrae , C. eastwoodi , C ...
Camponotus niveosetosus, commonly known as the hairy sugar ant, is one of the smaller species of sugar ant. It is native to an extensive region in the eastern Afrotropics . Description
Camponotus cinctellus, commonly known as the shiny sugar ant, is a species of sugar ant [2] with an extensive range in the eastern Afrotropics. Description [ edit ]
Lepisiota capensis, commonly known as the small black sugar ant, is an Old World ant in the subfamily Formicinae. It is found in countries of the Afrotropical , Malagasy , Oriental , and Palaearctic regions.