Camponotus irritans

Lives mainly in the primary forests of central Taiwan and is most common in Chiayi and Nantou, but it was first discovered in Kaohsiung, so its describer named it the Kaohsiung carpenter ant. The body is light brown, with the queen's head and gaster and the majors' heads a darker brown. The exoskeleton is thin and the ants move extremely fast, escaping danger by half-jumping and dropping away. The species name irritans means "irritating", because the number of males in the nuptial flight is staggering and they swarm to the lights of local residents. A very unusual phenomenon has also been recorded in this species: newly founded queens produce diploid males early in colony founding, for reasons and purposes still unexplained.