Cephalotes pellans
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| Cephalotes pellans | |
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| File:Cephalotes pellans casent0173698 profile 1.jpg | |
| Cephalotes pellans worker | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
| Genus: | Cephalotes |
| Species: | C. pellans
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| Cephalotes pellans De Andrade, 1999
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Cephalotes pellans 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]
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