← Back

Cephalotes porrasi

Cephalotes porrasi

Classification

Class
Insecta

Cephalotes porrasi is a species of arboreal ant of the genus Cephalotes, from central America. The soldier caste has the upper part of its head shaped like a disk. The worker caste has the ability to "parachute" by steering its fall if it drops off a tree, leading the ants to also have been classified as gliding ants.

Distribution

Loading map…
Countries in the Picchu catalog