Atta vollenweideri

Atta vollenweideri
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Genus: Atta
Species:
A. vollenweideri
Binomial name
Atta vollenweideri
(Forel, 1893)

Atta vollenweideri, common name chaco leafcutter ant, is a species of leafcutter ant, a New World ant of the subfamily Myrmicinae of the genus Atta. This species is from one of the two genera of advanced attines (fungus-growing ants) within the tribe Attini.

Colonies are made up of around 4-7 million individuals.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Species: Atta vollenweideri". AntWeb. 2010-06-30. Retrieved 2010-08-20.
  2. ↑ "Alex Wild Photography with Keywords: Atta%20vollenweideri".
  3. ↑ Hölldobler, Bert; Wilson, Edward O. (2009). The Superorganism: The Beauty, Elegance, and Strangeness of Insect Societies. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 9780393067040.

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