Black-headed Sugar Ant
Male Alate, Wing Venation
Ellura
Black-headed Sugar Ant
Queen Alate, profile
 
                      
Black-headed Sugar Ant (Camponotus nigriceps)Class: Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta)
Order: Ant Bee Wasps (Hymenoptera)
Family: Modern Ant (Ant: Formicidae Formicinae)     iNaturalist Observation
Species: Black-headed Sugar Ant (Camponotus nigriceps)
This Photo:     🔍Queen Alate, dorsal🔎

Thank you Grant Wang for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA), the Flinders Ranges, the Riverland and elsewhere
This is probably our most abundant Camponotus species. As such, we have included photo's of a Male Alate here. While we are certain the male is a Camponotus genus, we cannot be sure which species it belongs to.

Copyright © 2024 Brett & Marie Smith. All Rights Reserved. Photographed 26-Nov-2024
This species is an Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.