Cephalotes complanatus

Cephalotes complanatus 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.^[1][2]

Cephalotes complanatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Myrmicinae
Genus:	Cephalotes
Species:	C. complanatus
Binomial name
Cephalotes complanatus (Guerin-Meneville, 1844)

It was first identified and classified by the French entomologist Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville, in 1844.^[3]