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Cephalotes hamulus

species of insect

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 9, 2024
Entity authorityQ5063403 ↗
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Cephalotes hamulus is a species of arboreal ant of the genus 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 ants.

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“Cephalotes hamulus” enters the record as species of insect. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Cephalotes, hamulus and species can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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The date and method of observation matter as much as the stated conclusion, especially where classification or consensus has changed. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 9, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q5063403. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Cephalotes hamulus” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.