Cephalotes prodigiosus: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Family
- Formicidae
- Genus
- Cephalotes
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Cephalotes prodigiosus
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Cephalotes prodigiosus
Cephalotes prodigiosus 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 the tree they're on, giving them the name of gliding ants as well.
...Cephalotes prodigiosus in languages:
- English
- Prodigiosus-group Turtle Ants
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