Acromyrmex aspersus explained

Acromyrmex aspersus is a species of New World ant 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 ant from one of the two genera of advanced fungus-growing ants within the tribe Attini.^[1]

Subspecies

Acromyrmex aspersus contains these subspecies:

• Acromyrmex aspersus aspersus F. Smith, 1858
• Acromyrmex aspersus fuhrmanni Forel, 1914

Notes and References

1. Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.