Cephalotes

Not to be confused with Cephalotus.

Cephalotes
Cephalotes atratus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Suborder:	Apocrita
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Myrmicinae
Tribe:	Cephalotini
Genus:	Cephalotes Latreille, 1802[1]
Species
many
Diversity
134 species
Synonyms
Eucryptocerus – Kempf Zacryptocerus – Wheeler Cryptocerus – Latreille Cryptocephalus – Lowne Paracryptocerus – Emery Cyathomyrmex – Creighton Cyathocephalus – Emery Harnedia – Smith Hypocryptocerus – Wheeler Exocryptocerus – Vierbergen & Scheven

Cephalotes is a Neotropical genus of ant species, all sharing the same odd head style, which tend to be mainly arboreal, and all appear to be gliding ants, with the ability to "parachute" and steer their fall so as to land back on the tree trunk rather than fall to the ground, which is often flooded.^[2]

Species

• Cephalotes adolphi (Emery, 1906)
• Cephalotes alfaroi (Emery, 1890)
• Cephalotes alveolatus (Vierbergen & Scheven, 1995)
• Cephalotes angustus (Mayr, 1862)
• Cephalotes argentatus (Smith, 1853)
• Cephalotes argentiventris De Andrade, 1999
• Cephalotes atratus (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Cephalotes auriger De Andrade, 1999
• Cephalotes basalis (Smith, 1876)
• Cephalotes betoi De Andrade, 1999
• Cephalotes biguttatus (Emery, 1890)
• Cephalotes bimaculatus (Smith, 1860)
• Cephalotes bivestitus (Santschi, 1922)
• Cephalotes bloosi Baroni Urbani, 1999
• Cephalotes bohlsi (Emery, 1896)
• Cephalotes borgmeieri (Kempf, 1951)
• Cephalotes brevispineus De Andrade, 1999
• Cephalotes bruchi (Forel, 1912)
• Cephalotes carabicus De Andrade, 1999
• Cephalotes chacmul Snelling, 1999
• Cephalotes christopherseni (Forel, 1912)
• Cephalotes clypeatus (Fabricius, 1804)
• Cephalotes coffeae (Kempf, 1953)
• Cephalotes columbicus (Forel, 1912)
• Cephalotes complanatus (Guerin-Meneville, 1844)
• Cephalotes conspersus (Smith, 1867)
• Cephalotes cordatus (Smith, 1853)
• Cephalotes cordiae (Stitz, 1913)
• Cephalotes cordiventris (Santschi, 1931)
• Cephalotes crenaticeps (Mayr, 1866)
• Cephalotes cristatus (Emery, 1890)
• Cephalotes curvistriatus (Forel, 1899)
• Cephalotes decolor De Andrade, 1999
• Cephalotes decoloratus De Andrade, 1999
• Cephalotes dentidorsum De Andrade, 1999
• Cephalotes depressus (Klug, 1824)
• Cephalotes dieteri Baroni Urbani, 1999
• Cephalotes dorbignyanus (Smith, 1853)
• Cephalotes duckei (Forel, 1906)
• Cephalotes ecuadorialis De Andrade, 1999
• Cephalotes eduarduli (Forel, 1921)
• Cephalotes emeryi (Forel, 1912)
• Cephalotes fiebrigi (Forel, 1906)
• Cephalotes flavigaster De Andrade, 1999
• Cephalotes foliaceus (Emery, 1906)
• Cephalotes fossithorax (Santschi, 1921)
• Cephalotes frigidus (Kempf, 1960)
• Cephalotes goeldii (Forel, 1912)
• Cephalotes goniodontes De Andrade, 1999
• Cephalotes grandinosus (Smith, 1860)
• Cephalotes guayaki De Andrade, 1999
• Cephalotes haemorrhoidalis (Latreille, 1802)
• Cephalotes hamulus (Roger, 1863)
• Cephalotes hirsutus De Andrade, 1999
• Cephalotes hispaniolicus De Andrade, 1999
• Cephalotes inaequalis (Mann, 1916)
• Cephalotes inca (Santschi, 1911)
• Cephalotes incertus (Emery, 1906)
• Cephalotes insularis (Wheeler, 1934)
• Cephalotes integerrimus (Vierbergen & Scheven, 1995)
• Cephalotes jamaicensis (Forel, 1922)
• Cephalotes jansei (Vierbergen & Scheven, 1995)
• Cephalotes jheringi (Emery, 1894)
• Cephalotes klugi (Emery, 1894)
• Cephalotes kukulcan Snelling, 1999
• Cephalotes laminatus (Smith, 1860)
• Cephalotes lanuginosus (Santschi, 1919)
• Cephalotes lenca De Andrade, 1999
• Cephalotes liepini De Andrade, 1999
• Cephalotes liogaster (Santschi, 1916)
• Cephalotes maculatus (Smith, 1876)
• Cephalotes manni (Kempf, 1951)
• Cephalotes marginatus (Fabricius, 1804)
• Cephalotes maya De Andrade, 1999
• Cephalotes membranaceus (Klug, 1824)
• Cephalotes minutus (Fabricius, 1804)
• Cephalotes mompox De Andrade, 1999
• Cephalotes multispinosus (Norton, 1868)
• Cephalotes nilpiei De Andrade, 1999
• Cephalotes notatus (Mayr, 1866)
• Cephalotes obscurus (Vierbergen & Scheven, 1995)
• Cephalotes oculatus (Spinola, 1851)
• Cephalotes olmecus De Andrade, 1999
• Cephalotes opacus Santschi, 1920
• Cephalotes pallens (Klug, 1824)
• Cephalotes pallidicephalus (Smith, 1876)
• Cephalotes pallidoides De Andrade, 1999
• Cephalotes pallidus De Andrade, 1999
• Cephalotes palta De Andrade, 1999
• Cephalotes palustris De Andrade, 1999
• Cephalotes patei (Kempf, 1951)
• Cephalotes patellaris (Mayr, 1866)
• Cephalotes pavonii (Latreille, 1809)
• Cephalotes pellans De Andrade, 1999
• Cephalotes persimilis De Andrade, 1999
• Cephalotes persimplex De Andrade, 1999
• Cephalotes peruviensis De Andrade, 1999
• Cephalotes pileini De Andrade, 1999
• Cephalotes pilosus (Emery, 1896)
• Cephalotes pinelii (Guerin-Meneville, 1844)
• Cephalotes placidus (Smith, 1860)
• Cephalotes poinari Baroni Urbani, 1999
• Cephalotes porrasi (Wheeler, 1942)
• Cephalotes prodigiosus (Santschi, 1921)
• Cephalotes pusillus (Klug, 1824)
• Cephalotes quadratus (Mayr, 1868)
• Cephalotes ramiphilus (Forel, 1904)
• Cephalotes resinae De Andrade, 1999
• Cephalotes rohweri (Wheeler, 1916)
• Cephalotes scutulatus (Smith, 1867)
• Cephalotes serraticeps (Smith, 1858)
• Cephalotes serratus (Vierbergen & Scheven, 1995)
• Cephalotes setulifer (Emery, 1894)
• Cephalotes simillimus (Kempf, 1951)
• Cephalotes sobrius (Kempf, 1958)
• Cephalotes solidus (Kempf, 1974)
• Cephalotes spinosus (Mayr, 1862)
• Cephalotes squamosus (Vierbergen & Scheven, 1995)
• Cephalotes sucinus De Andrade, 1999
• Cephalotes supercilii De Andrade, 1999
• Cephalotes taino De Andrade, 1999
• Cephalotes targionii (Emery, 1894)
• Cephalotes texanus (Santschi, 1915)
• Cephalotes toltecus De Andrade, 1999
• Cephalotes trichophorus De Andrade, 1999
• Cephalotes umbraculatus (Fabricius, 1804)
• Cephalotes unimaculatus (Smith, 1853)
• Cephalotes ustus (Kempf, 1973)
• Cephalotes varians (Smith, 1876)
• Cephalotes ventriosus De Andrade, 1999
• Cephalotes vinosus (Wheeler, 1936)
• Cephalotes wheeleri (Forel, 1901)

References

1. ^ Latreille, P.A. (1802). Histoire naturelle, generale et particuliere des crustaces et des insectes. Vol. 3.. Paris: F. Dufart. http://research.amnh.org/entomology/social_insects/ants/publications/0242/0242.pdf. 
2. ^ Yanoviak, Stephen P.; Munk, Yonatan; Dudley, Robert. "Evolution and Ecology of Directed Aerial Descent in Arboreal Ants". Integrative and Comparative Biology: 1–13. doi:10.1093/icb/icr006. http://icb.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2011/05/11/icb.icr006.full.pdf.