Cephalotes pusillus

Species of ant

Cephalotes pusillus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Genus: Cephalotes
Species:
C. pusillus
Binomial name
Cephalotes pusillus
(Klug, 1824)

Cephalotes pusillus is a species of arboreal ant in the genus Cephalotes, described in 1824 and characterized by its oddly shaped head and ability to glide if it falls from a tree, as gliding ants do.[1][2]

References

  1. ^ Latreille, P.A. (1802). Histoire naturelle, generale et particuliere des crustaces et des insectes. Vol. 3. F. Dufart, Paris. 467 pp. PDF
  2. ^ Yanoviak, S. P.; Munk, Y.; Dudley, R. (2011). "Evolution and Ecology of Directed Aerial Descent in Arboreal Ants". Integrative and Comparative Biology. 51 (6): 944–956. doi:10.1093/icb/icr006. PMID 21562023.
Taxon identifiers
Cephalotes pusillus
  • Wikidata: Q5063457
  • Wikispecies: Cephalotes pusillus
  • BOLD: 650000
  • CoL: 69JSH
  • EoL: 475541
  • GBIF: 5035896
  • iNaturalist: 461164
  • IRMNG: 10218322
  • ITIS: 578817
  • NCBI: 606754
  • Open Tree of Life: 3255907
  • Plazi: 9E3F579E-810D-D6E8-3718-D936017847E9


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