Acromyrmex ambiguus

Acromyrmex ambiguus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Genus: Acromyrmex
Species: A. ambiguus
Binomial name
Acromyrmex ambiguus
Emery, 1888[1]
Synonyms

Acromyrmex erectus Goncalves, 1961

Acromyrmex ambiguus is a species of New World ants of the subfamily Myrmicinae found in the wild naturally in southern Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay. Commonly known as "leaf-cutter ants", they are a species of ant from one of the two genera of advanced fungus-growing ants within the tribe Attini.[2]

References

  1. http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=578292
  2. Bolton, B. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. — Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1995. 504 p.
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