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Camponotus cf. irritans

Added on: 10/09/15
Article number: cacf0002
  • Taxonomy: Subfamily Formicinae, Tribe Camponotini
  • Characteristics: polymorph, nocturnal
  • Color: red brown, amber (contrasting color)
  • Size: 7 up to 12mm
  • Distribution: South-East Asia
  • Nutrition: Honey- or sugar water, crickets, flies
  • Hibernation: No
  • Temperature: 24 - 28 °C (tropical)
  • Humidity: Rain forest
  • Nest building: dead wood only

This beautiful colored species is really easy to keep.

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Small Colony - Currently not available
With 10-20 workers

Camponotus cf. nicobarensis

Added on: 05/15/09
Article number: cacf0001

A multicolored Camponotus species from South-East Asia.

  • Taxonomy: Subfamily Formicinae, Tribe Camponotini
  • Distribution: South-East Asia
  • Color: multicolored (brown, red, yellow)
  • Size: 6 - 12 mm
  • Characteristics: polymorph
  • Nutrition: Honey- or sugar water and insects
  • Hibernation: No
  • Climate: tropical (lowland)
  • Nest building: Soilnests
  • Planting: nothing specific
  • Level: easy
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Colony - Currently not available
With 5-10 workers
Colony - Currently not available
- with 80-100 workers

Camponotus cf. singularis

Added on: 11/02/06
Article number: casp0006
  • Distribution: Southeast Asia
  • Taxonomy: Subfamily Formicinae, Tribe Camponotini
  • Hibernation: No
  • Color: black with red-brown head
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Colony - Currently not available

Camponotus festinus

Added on: 12/30/10
Article number: cafe0001
  • Taxonomy: Subfamily Formicinae, Tribe Camponotini
  • Characteristics: polymorph
  • Color: light til darkbrown
  • Size: up to 12mm
  • Distribution: South-East Asia (Malaysia)
  • Nutrition: Honey- or sugar water, crickets, flies
  • Hibernation: No
  • Temperature: 24 - 28 °C (tropical)
  • Humidity: Rain forest
  • Nest building: moist dead wood especially bamboo

Note: Shipping outside Germany in winter (November-March) only on own risk.

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Colony - Currently not available
With about 200 workers
Shipping restrictions: Shipping only within Germany

Camponotus gigas

Added on: 11/02/06
Article number: cagi0001

The largest ant of the world.

  • Distribution: South-East Asia
  • Nest building: wood nests (death wood)

Caution:

This ant is very sensitive, for this reason, no shipping will be offered. The colony offered here has been taken from a queen.

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Colony - Currently not available
Queen with 100 workers
Shipping restrictions: No shipping is possible, self collecting is required

Camponotus habereri

Added on: 12/02/08
Article number: caha0001

Unique colored Camponotus species from East Asia.Even first workers do have the unique colored stripes of the Queen.

  • Taxonomy: Subfamily Formicinae, Tribe Camponotini
  • Distribution: East Asia
  • Color: red with black-yellow striped abdomen
  • Size: Workers: 0.8 - 1.3 cm, Queen: 1.6 cm
  • Nutrition: Honey- or sugar water and insects
  • Hibernation: No
  • Climate: subtropical (moist), Flatland
  • Nest building: Wood nests
  • Planting: nothing specific
  • Level: easy
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Colony - Currently not available
With 20-30 workers
Large colony - Currently not available
With approx. 500-1000 workers

Camponotus sericeus

Added on: 11/02/06
Article number: case0001

This is a diurnal, conspicuous golden colored Camponotus species. It will be commonly called as Golden ant due to their golden pubescence on the gaster. Likes very sunny places, will forage alone or in small groups, will direct workers in tandem movement to food source or new nest.

  • Taxonomy: Subfamily Formicinae, Tribe Camponotini
  • Distribution: South Asia
  • Color: black with golden abdomen
  • Characteristics: haired abdomen, monogyne
  • Size: Queen about 11 - 13 mm
  • Nutrition: Honey- or sugar water and insects
  • Hibernation: No (see climate)
  • Climate: Tropical
  • Nest building: Soil nests
  • Planting: nothing specific
  • Level: easy
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Small colony - Currently not available
With 10 - 20 workers

Camponotus sp.

Added on: 11/02/06
Article number: casp0007


  • Taxonomy: Subfamily Formicinae, Tribe Camponotini
  • Distribution: South Asia
  • Color: red with black abdomen
  • Size: Queen about 11 - 13 mm
  • Nutrition: Honey- or sugar water and insects
  • Hibernation: No (see climate)
  • Climate: tropical
  • Nest building: Soil nests, half shaded places between grass and bushes
  • Planting: nothing specific
  • Level: easy
  • Specifics: Builds "half" calderas (one sided)
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Colony - Currently not available
With 5-10 workers
Large Colony - Currently not available
With 50-80 workers

Camponotus sp.

Added on: 05/05/08
Article number: casp0009
  • Taxonomy: Subfamily Formicinae, Tribe Camponotini
  • Distribution: Southern Asia
  • Color: black
  • Nutrition: Honey- or sugar water and insects
  • Hibernation: No
  • Climate: Tropical
  • Planting: nothing specific
  • Level: easy
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Colony - Currently not available
Contains 30-50 workers
Small colony - Currently not available
With first workers

Camponotus sp.

Added on: 11/02/06
Article number: casp0008

This is a fast growing Camponotus species from Maledives which builds strong major workers in larger colonies.

  • Taxonomy: Subfamily Formicinae, Tribe Camponotini
  • Distribution: Maldives
  • Color: black
  • Nutrition: Honey- or sugar water and insects
  • Hibernation: No (see climate)
  • Climate: tropical
  • Humidity: Rain forest
  • Nest building: This species nests in loamy ground
  • Planting: nothing specific
  • Level: easy
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Colony - Currently not available
Above 100 ants

Camponotus sp.

Added on: 10/09/15
Article number: casp0025

A small southeast asian Camponotus species that nests in dry and dead wood similar to the European Camponotus truncatus. A moist climate is also no problem, however it is important to ensure that the nesting wood can dry out.

Because this is a peaceful species it can be kept together with other species in one basin.

  • Taxonomy: Subfamily Formicinae, Tribe Camponotini
  • Color: black
  • Size: 3-7mm
  • Distribution: South-East Asia
  • Nutrition: Honey- or sugar water, crickets, flies
  • Hibernation: No
  • Temperature: 24 - 28 °C (tropical)
  • Humidity: Rain forest
  • Nest building: dead wood (dry)
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Small colony - Currently not available
With 10-20 workers

Camponotus sp. "Southern Asia"

Added on: 05/23/08
Article number: casp0010


  • Taxonomy: Subfamily Formicinae, Tribe Camponotini
  • Distribution: South Asia
  • Color: yellow-brown
  • Size: Workers about 7 - 8 mm
  • Nutrition: Honey- or sugar water and insects
  • Hibernation: No
  • Climate: tropical (moist)
  • Nest building: Soil nests
  • Planting: nothing specific
  • Level: easy
  • Specifics: Builds "half" calderas (one sided)
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Colony - Currently not available
With first workers

Camponotus sp. "Thailand"

Added on: 01/27/09
Article number: casp0012

Easy to keep Camponotus species from Thailand.

  • Taxonomy: Subfamily Formicinae, Tribe Camponotini
  • Origin: Thailand
  • Color: red-brown head, dark thorax and reddish-brown abdomen (Color may vary depending on the size of the worker)
  • Size: Workers: 0.8 - 1.3 cm, Queen: 1.6 cm
  • Nutrition: Honey- or sugar water and insects
  • Hibernation: No
  • Climate: tropical (moist)
  • Nest building: Wood nests
  • Planting: nothing specific
  • Level: easy

Note: Only available once because bought from private ants keeper.

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Colony - Currently not available
With about 100 - 200 workers

Camponotus sp. 6

Added on: 02/20/10
Article number: casp0014

A small Southeast Asian Camponotus species which nests in dry tree branches like our native Camponotus truncatus. Their major workers also closes the nests entries with their plug alike heads and they are even different colored as the normal workers. The Queen attracts attention with her silvery striped gaster. Some keeping notes: nest area shouldn't be kept too moist.

  • Taxonomy: Subfamily Formicinae, Tribe Camponotini
  • Distribution: Southeast Asia
  • Color: Major worker: black with red head, Queen: black with silvery striped gaster
  • Nutrition: Honey- or sugar water and insects and other small animals
  • Hibernation: No
  • Climate: tropical (moist)
  • Nest building: dry tree branches
  • Level: easy
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Colony - Currently not available
With 20-30 workers

Camponotus sp. Malaysia

Added on: 02/23/20
Article number: casp0028
  • Taxonomy: Subfamily Formicinae, Tribe Camponotini
  • Characteristics: polymorph
  • Color: light til darkbrown
  • Size: up to 12mm
  • Distribution: South-East Asia (Malaysia)
  • Nutrition: Honey- or sugar water, crickets, flies
  • Hibernation: No
  • Temperature: 24 - 28 °C (tropical)
  • Humidity: Rain forest
  • Nest building: moist dead wood especially bamboo

Note: Shipping outside Germany in winter (November-March) only on own risk.

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Colony - Currently not available
with 20-30 workers

Carebara (Pheidologeton) sp.

Added on: 11/02/06
Article number: phsp0003

Similar to Pheidologeton diversus (workers ride on their queens and sometimes also on the soldiers)..

  • Origin: South-East Asia
  • Color: Workers: braun, Soldiers: black and also brown, red
  • Characteristics: strong polymorph, monogyn and also polygyn
  • Nutrition: insects and seeds
  • Hibernation: No
  • Temperature: 24 - 28 °C
  • Humidity: moist
  • Soil conditions: loamy sand, loam
  • Planting: not necessary
  • Accessories: heat source
  • Level: for advancer
  • Specifics: Very interesting ants because their predatory attacks like this of driver ants. They also apply fixed "highways" when the colony is great enough. The workers ride on their queens (for protection) and sometimes also on the soldiers. 
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Colony - Currently not available
2 Queens, 500-1000 workers
Shipping restrictions: Shipping only within Germany

Carebara sp.

Added on: 06/07/20
Article number: casp0029

This Carebara species is colored  black and occurs mainly in the rainforest. In addition, this species is monogynous. Almost every day she raids like the well-known driver ants, in contrast to Caraebara diversus, which only raids sporadically. The workers "ride" on the queens (for protection) and sometimes also on the big soldiers. Here you can find the biggest difference in height and dimensions between workers and soldiers. The queen in this Carebara sp. strikingly large. All colonies were raised from a queen.

Taxonomy: subfamily Myrmicinae, tribe Pheidologetonini
Distribution: Southeast Asia (rainforest)
Color: black
Characteristics: pronounced box formation, monogyn
Nest building: earth nests
Food: mostly insects and grains (nuts)
Hibernation: No.
Temperature: 25-30 ° C
Air humidity: 50 - 60% at 28 ° C (moist floor)
Soil quality: loamy sand or loam soil (e.g. forest floor)
Planting: Not necessary
Formicaria accessories: heat source
Formicaria equipment: rainforest, moss, leaves, pieces of wood
Attitude class: for advanced

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Big colony - instead of 299.00 € now only 249.00 €
with a some thousend workers
Shipping restrictions: Shipping only within Germany

Crematogaster rogenhoferi

Added on: 02/15/23
Article number: crro0001
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Colony - Currently not available
200-400 worker

RENDERING: 44 ms, LOADING: ? ms