# Cephalotes auriger

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| genus = Cephalotes
| species = auriger
| authority = de Andrade, 1999
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'''''Cephalotes auriger''''' is a species of [arboreal](/source/arboreal) [ant](/source/ant) of the genus ''[Cephalotes](/source/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 ant](/source/gliding_ant)s.<ref>Latreille, P.A. (1802). Histoire naturelle, generale et particuliere des crustaces et des insectes. Vol. 3. ''F. Dufart, Paris''. 467 pp. [http://research.amnh.org/entomology/social_insects/ants/publications/0242/0242.pdf PDF]</ref><ref>{{Cite journal | last1 = Yanoviak | first1 = S. P. | last2 = Munk | first2 = Y. | last3 = Dudley | first3 = R. | doi = 10.1093/icb/icr006 | title = Evolution and Ecology of Directed Aerial Descent in Arboreal Ants | journal = Integrative and Comparative Biology | volume = 51 | issue = 6 | pages = 944–956 | year = 2011 | pmid =  21562023| doi-access = free }}</ref>

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