Taxonomic history
De Andrade & Baroni Urbani, 1999 PDF: 149 (s.q.m.).Combination in Eucryptocerus: Kempf, 1951 PDF: 131.Combination in Cephalotes: De Andrade & Baroni Urbani, 1999 PDF: 147.Junior synonym of Cephalotes placidus: Kempf, 1959a PDF: 92; Kempf, 1972b PDF: 107; Bolton, 1995b: 189.Status as species: Kempf, 1951 PDF: 131; De Andrade & Baroni Urbani, 1999 PDF: 147 (redescription); Bezděčková et al., 2015 PDF: 116; Sandoval-Gómez & Sánchez-Restrepo, 2019 PDF: 912.Senior synonym of Cephalotes abdominalis: De Andrade & Baroni Urbani, 1999 PDF: 147.
Cephalotes opacus 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]
Cephalotes opacus 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.
