Acromyrmex aspersus
| Acromyrmex aspersus | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
| Tribe: | Attini |
| Genus: | Acromyrmex |
| Species: | A. aspersus |
| Binomial name | |
| Acromyrmex aspersus F. Smith, 1858 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Acromyrmex aspersus is a species of New World ants of the subfamily Myrmicinae found in the wild naturally in southern Brazil and Peru. Commonly known as "leaf-cutter ants", they are a species of ants from one of the two genera of advanced fungus-growing ants within the tribe Attini.[1]
Subspecies
Acromyrmex aspersus contains these subspecies:
References
- ↑ Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
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