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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps » Ants (Formicoidea) » Ants (Formicidae) » Myrmicinae » Attini » Fungus Growing Ants (Attina) » Leaf-cutting Ants (Acromyrmex) » Desert Leaf-cutting Ant (Acromyrmex versicolor)
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Atta sp. - Acromyrmex versicolor
Copyright © 2009 Ken O'Brien

Atta sp. - Acromyrmex versicolor
Upper Sonoran Desert, Gila County, Arizona, USA
October 1, 2008
New to the Sonoran Desert, I just wanted to confirm that these are indeed harvester ants, because the symmetrical cones they build around their holes I could not find associated with harvester ants. Located in the Tonto Basin at 2896', mid-day, 95 deg. F.

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Atta sp. - Acromyrmex versicolor Ant Cones - Acromyrmex versicolor Ant Cones - Acromyrmex versicolor
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Contributed by Ken O'Brien on 17 January, 2009 - 6:37pm
Last updated 11 October, 2018 - 12:49am

Moved
Moved from Atta mexicana.
… Steven Wang, 11 October, 2018 - 12:49am login or register to post comments

Atta
Leaf Cutter Ants.
… MrILoveTheAnts, 17 January, 2009 - 11:53pm login or register to post comments

 
Atta mexicana
Almost certainly A. mexicana, only species of the genus that occurs in Arizona.
… George Waldren, 18 January, 2009 - 3:03am login or register to post comments

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