Amazingly colored small species!
Camponotus sexguttatus
This widespread, synanthropic species is quite variable in color, head sculpture and mesosomal structure. Majors and minors of this species can be recognized by the deeply depressed metanotal suture. The scapes of the majors, minors, and females have numerous erect hairs. The minor usually has erect hairs on the posterior margin, along the sides of the head, on the cheeks, and on the clypeus. The major and female usually have erect hairs only on the posterior margin, vertex, between the frontal carinae, and usually lack hairs on the sides of the head, on the cheeks, and on the clypeus. The workers and females range in color or from completely black, to brown, to bicolored (head and mesosoma red, gaster black). The gaster usually has lateral yellow splotches on each gastral tergite.
Native range from Argentina to Nicaragua, plus the Caribbean. It has also become established in Florida and Hawaii.
