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#3635 · 🐝 bees, wasps & ants

Blood-spotted Sugar Ant

Camponotus cruentatus

🐝 Bees, wasps & ants 📍 in Europe, not in NL
Blood-spotted Sugar Ant, photo 1 of 7
1/7 © Jonghyun Park · CC BY 4.0

what is it?

Camponotus cruentatus is een mierensoort uit de onderfamilie van de schubmieren (Formicinae). De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort is voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd in 1802 door Latreille.

base stats

  • NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
  • worldwide 6,702iNaturalist observations

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

  • No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
  • 6,702 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.

fact sheet

English
Blood-spotted Sugar Ant
scientific name
Camponotus cruentatus
class
Insecta
order
Hymenoptera
family
Formicidae
sightings in NL
0
sightings in Europe
6,426
sightings worldwide
6,702
GBIF records in NL
0
weight
—
length
—
lifespan
—

relatives· Formicidae

Sources: iNaturalist taxon 131030, Wikidata Q2935553, GBIF 1312486, Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.

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