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| Species: | O. cephalotes |
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| Oncideres cephalotes Bates, 1865 | |
Oncideres cephalotes is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Henry Walter Bates in 1865. It is known from Brazil and French Guiana. [1]
Gliding ants are arboreal ants of several different genera that are able to control the direction of their descent when falling from a tree. Living in the rainforest canopy like many other gliders, gliding ants use their gliding to return to the trunk of the tree they live on should they fall or be knocked off a branch. Gliding was first discovered for Cephalotes atratus in the Peruvian rainforest.
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