''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 ant
Gliding ants are arboreal ants of several different genera that are able to control the direction of their descent when falling from a tree. Living in the rainforest canopy like many other gliders, gliding ants use their gliding to return to the ...
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It was first identified and classified by the French entomologist
Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville, in 1844.
References
complanatus
Insects described in 1844
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