Camponotus sericeiventris
In 3 days ~40% in a week ~60%
Camponotus sericeiventris, the shimmering golden sugar ant, is a species of carpenter ant native to large parts of Central and South America. It is the only species in the subgenus Myrmepomis. These five subspecies belong to the species Camponotus sericeiventris: Wikipedia →
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rio de Janeiro | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 2 | Belo Horizonte | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 3 | San José | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica | |
| 4 | Campinas | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 5 | Porto Alegre | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 6 | San Salvador | 🇸🇻 El Salvador | |
| 7 | São Paulo | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 8 | Monterrey | 🇲🇽 México |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Shimmering Golden Sugar Ant sighting in Belo Horizonte on a given day, based on 59 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 13th most-seen of the 186 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 40%, and over a week to about 60%, if each day is a fresh chance.
April
In that month about 30% of wildlife watchers report a Shimmering Golden Sugar Ant in Belo Horizonte on a given day, against under 5% in January and June, the lowest months. That is one of Belo Horizonte's driest months, with about 55 mm of rain against 270 mm in December.
Between 10 am and 1 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Shimmering Golden Sugar Ant sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
2nd of 8
Of the 8 cities where we can rate Shimmering Golden Sugar Ant sightings, Belo Horizonte ranks 2nd at about 10%. The best odds are in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil, about 20%).
Same genus: Camponotus
The closest relatives of the Shimmering Golden Sugar Ant that you can see in Belo Horizonte (genus Camponotus, Carpenter Ants, Typical Sugar Ants and Allies) are Camponotus renggeri (about 10%) and Camponotus rufipes (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Shimmering Golden Sugar Ant is recorded against all the insects logged in Belo Horizonte (59 verified sightings), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
