Atta vollenweideri

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Atta vollenweideri
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Genus: Atta
Species:
A. vollenweideri
Binomial name
Atta vollenweideri
(Forel, 1893) [1]

Atta vollenweideri, common name chaco leafcutter ant, [2] 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.

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Colonies are made up of around 4-7 million individuals. [3]

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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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