Cephalotes angustus: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Family
- Formicidae
- Genus
- Cephalotes
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Cephalotes angustus
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Cephalotes angustus
Cephalotes angustus 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.
...Cephalotes angustus in languages:
- English
- Angustus-group Turtle Ants
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Cephalotes angustus
- Cephalotes atratus
- Cephalotes basalis
- Cephalotes bimaculatus
- Cephalotes clypeatus
- Cephalotes coffeae
- Cephalotes crenaticeps
- Cephalotes depressus
- Cephalotes emeryi
- Cephalotes fiebrigi
- Cephalotes grandinosus
- Cephalotes hamulus
- Cephalotes manni
- Cephalotes multispinosus
- Cephalotes pallens
- Cephalotes patei
- Cephalotes pinelii
- Cephalotes prodigiosus
- Cephalotes pusillus
- Cephalotes solidus
- Cephalotes texanus
- Cephalotes umbraculatus
- Cephalotes wheeleri