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Acromyrmex ambiguus

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Acromyrmex ambiguus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
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

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  1. ^ "ITIS - Report: Acromyrmex ambiguus".
  2. ^ Bolton, B. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. — Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1995. 504 p.