Camponotus albosparsus

Japanese Name

Aka-yotsuboshi-oo-ari

Bingham, C. T., (1903) The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Hymenoptera, Vol.II. Ants and Cuckoo-wasps. 506 pp. Taylor and Francis, London.

Camponotus taylori var. albosparsus Bingham (Bingham, 1903), Camponotus albosparsus Bingham (Wang et al., 1989)

Total length of workers around 4 - 7 mm. Head blackish brown; mesosoma, petiole and legs brown; gaster black, 1st and 2nd gastral terga each with a pair of yellow spots (often merging on the 1st tergite). Anterior margin of clypeus straight. Mandibles each with 6 teeth. Scapes short: 1.2 - 1.3 times the head width in minor workers, and just exceeding the posterior border of the head in majors. Petiole relatively high, with an inverted V-shaped profile. Head and mesosoma with relatively abundant erect hairs.

This species is widely distributed in Southeast Asia. Nests are found in soil in open land or grassland.

Nansei Is (Sakishima Is); Taiwan, China (southern parts), SE Asia.