Cephalotes complanatus
Species of ant
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Cephalotes complanatus is a species of arboreal ant of the genus Cephalotes, characterized by an odd shaped head, and the ability to "parachute" by steering their fall if they drop off of the tree they're on. Giving their name also as gliding ants.[1][2]
| Cephalotes complanatus | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
| Genus: | Cephalotes |
| Species: | C. complanatus |
| Binomial name | |
| Cephalotes complanatus (Guerin-Meneville, 1844) | |
It was first identified and classified by the French entomologist Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville, in 1844.[3]