Genus Atta - Leaf-cutting Ants

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Print References · Works Cited

Atta Texana alate - Atta texana - female

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies)

No Taxon (Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps)

Superfamily Formicoidea (Ants)

Family Formicidae (Ants)

Subfamily Myrmicinae

Tribe Attini

Subtribe Attina (Fungus Growing Ants)

Genus Atta (Leaf-cutting Ants)

Explanation of Names

Atta Fabricius, 1804

Numbers

2 spp. n. of Mex. (41 spp. total, all in the New World)

Range

A. mexicana - so. AZ

A. texana - TX-LA

Print References

Borgmeier, T. 1959. Revision der Gattung Atta Fabricius. Studia Entomol. (new series) 2: 321-390.

Navarrete-Heredia, J.L. 2001. Beetles associated with Atta and Acromyrmex ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Attini). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 127: 381–429. (1)

Works Cited

1.	Beetles associated with Atta and Acromyrmex ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Attini) Navarrete-Heredia, J.L. 2001. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 127: 381–429.

Contributed by Troy Bartlett on 16 February, 2004 - 12:32pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn
Last updated 26 February, 2019 - 4:18pm

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