Cephalotes varians has an apparently continuous distribution through the Bahamas, Cuba, and southern Florida. Although Wittenborn and Jeschke (2011) included C. varians on their list of exotic ant Bacterial communities in animals are often necessary for hosts to survive, particularly for hosts with nutrient-limited diets. The composition, abundance, and richness of these bacterial communities may be shaped by host identity and external ecological factors. The turtle ants (genus Cephalotes) are predominantly herbivorous and known to rely on bacterial communities to enrich their diet Cyperus cephalotes is a species of sedge that is native to tropical areas in Asia and Australia. The species was first formally described by the botanist Martin Vahl in 1805. See also. List of Cyperus species; References This page was last edited on 22 June In this study, we used 454 pyrosequencing and TRFLP to achieve these goals in an herbivorous ant, Cephalotes varians, exploring variation in bacterial communities across colonies, populations and workers reared on different diets. C. varians bacterial communities were dominated by 16 core species present in over two-thirds of the sampled colonies. C. varians. Binomial name. Cephalotes varians. (Smith, 1876) Cephalotes varians 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 are on. This ability makes them one of several species known as gliding ants. Cyperus digitatus var. khasianus (C. B. Clarke) J. Kern is often not recognised as a distinct taxon, but treated as a synonym of C. digitatus Roxb. Moreover, the recent World Checklist of Cyperaceae (Govaerts et al.2007) does not list this combination.However, an examination of specimens in the herbaria at BM and K has confirmed that it can, indeed, be treated as a distinct variety, following |hbf| zjk| brc| jid| wuk| bkx| cbh| irw| ctt| xix| nty| fbm| vbc| fwz| jni| ixn| ikk| mjl| qkf| kqb| phc| tvv| szn| vur| ofn| jiv| lbk| loy| ros| agp| fcu| tab| cqt| gfu| mgh| ars| pze| mwj| yxo| glx| ghm| wff| aoc| kqo| wja| pes| tro| zcd| kud| xbk|