Taxonomic history
Mann, 1916 PDF: 451 (s.); De Andrade & Baroni Urbani, 1999 PDF: 257 (q.).Combination in Cryptocerus (Paracryptocerus): Emery, 1915g PDF: 192.Combination in Paracryptocerus: Kempf, 1951 PDF: 193.Combination in Zacryptocerus: Brandão, 1991 PDF: 385.Combination in Cephalotes: Baroni Urbani, 1998b: 320.Senior synonym of Cephalotes angulatus: Emery, 1924f PDF: 307.Senior synonym of Cephalotes multispinus amazonensis: Kempf, 1951 PDF: 193.
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]
It was first identified and classified by the French entomologist Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville, in 1844.[3]
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.
It was first identified and classified by the French entomologist Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville, in 1844.
