Cephalotes auriger: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Family
- Formicidae
- Genus
- Cephalotes
- Species
- Cephalotes auriger
- Scientific Name
- Cephalotes auriger
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Cephalotes auriger
Cephalotes auriger 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.
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