page_title: Cephalotes
section_title: Species
hierarchical_section_title: Cephalotes / Species
caption_attribution_description: English: Dorsal view of ant Cephalotes incertus specimen casent0173681.
context_page_description: Cephalotes is a Neotropical genus of tree-dwelling ant species, commonly known as turtle ants. 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.
context_section_description: 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 & Baroni Urbani, 1999
  Cephalotes bruchi (Forel, 1912)
  †Cephalotes caribicus De Andrade & Baroni Urbani, 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 De Andrade & 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 & Baroni Urbani, 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 sc
caption: Cephalotes incertus
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