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Atta cephalotes

Leafcutter ant

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Atta cephalotes

AntCat · view at source · updated on 21/07/2026
Author: (Linnaeus, 1758) species Valid name

Formicidae

Atta cephalotes (Linnaeus, 1758)

GBIF · view at source · updated on 03/07/2026

Leaf-cutter ant

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Animalia · Arthropoda · Insecta · Hymenoptera · Formicidae · Atta

Atta cephalotes

Wikidata · view at source · CC0 · updated on 03/07/2026

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species of insect

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(c) Karl Kroeker, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Karl Kroeker · CC BY-NC · iNaturalist
(c) Tony Iwane, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Tony Iwane · CC BY-NC · iNaturalist
(c) Mason Salem, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Mason Salem · CC BY-NC · iNaturalist
(c) Sebastián Berrío, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Sebastián Berrío · CC BY-NC · iNaturalist
(c) Don Marsille, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Don Marsille · CC BY-NC · iNaturalist
(c) Jason Headley, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Jason Headley · CC BY-NC · iNaturalist
(c) Tony Iwane, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Tony Iwane · CC BY-NC · iNaturalist
(c) Biosedbergh, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
(c) Sebastián Berrío, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Sebastián Berrío · CC BY-NC · iNaturalist
Occurrences (GBIF) 23 countries · 8437 records GBIF · updated on 30/07/2026 Maximize Minimize
Georeferenced points from GBIF. Click the map to use the scroll wheel; click a point to view the record.
Occurrences by year
1876: 2 1901: 1 1903: 2 1905: 2 1911: 3 1923: 65 1924: 1 1929: 1 1932: 1 1934: 12 1935: 1 1936: 6 1938: 14 1939: 4 1942: 3 1944: 2 1945: 2 1948: 16 1951: 1 1952: 1 1957: 7 1959: 1 1960: 1 1961: 1 1962: 1 1963: 2 1966: 1 1968: 17 1969: 4 1970: 12 1972: 14 1973: 17 1974: 15 1975: 19 1976: 19 1977: 26 1978: 35 1979: 77 1980: 55 1981: 47 1982: 80 1983: 5 1984: 18 1985: 25 1986: 21 1987: 10 1988: 56 1989: 276 1990: 21 1991: 198 1992: 268 1993: 218 1994: 46 1995: 35 1996: 68 1997: 67 1998: 44 1999: 121 2000: 37 2001: 21 2002: 16 2003: 177 2004: 318 2005: 51 2006: 53 2007: 42 2008: 193 2009: 62 2010: 128 2011: 194 2012: 38 2013: 283 2014: 168 2015: 130 2016: 158 2017: 335 2018: 95 2019: 133 2020: 118 2021: 245 2022: 382 2023: 533 2024: 877 2025: 832 2026: 647
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YearRecords
18762
19011
19032
19052
19113
192365
19241
19291
19321
193412
19351
19366
193814
19394
19423
19442
19452
194816
19511
19521
19577
19591
19601
19611
19621
19632
19661
196817
19694
197012
197214
197317
197415
197519
197619
197726
197835
197977
198055
198147
198280
19835
198418
198525
198621
198710
198856
1989276
199021
1991198
1992268
1993218
199446
199535
199668
199767
199844
1999121
200037
200121
200216
2003177
2004318
200551
200653
200742
2008193
200962
2010128
2011194
201238
2013283
2014168
2015130
2016158
2017335
201895
2019133
2020118
2021245
2022382
2023533
2024877
2025832
2026647
Costa Rica · 2,936 Colombia · 2,565 Mexico · 771 Brazil · 551 Ecuador · 300 Panama · 226 Trinidad & Tobago · 221 Belize · 217 Honduras · 160 Nicaragua · 143 Peru · 118 Guatemala · 94 French Guiana · 45 Venezuela · 30 Suriname · 17 Netherlands · 15 Bolivia · 7 Guyana · 7 Germany · 4 Barbados · 3 Cuba · 3 El Salvador · 3 Switzerland · 1
Costa Rica 19/07/2026 · nolapal · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record
Costa Rica 17/07/2026 · Nick Talbot · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record
Trinidad & Tobago 16/07/2026 · Bryan Ramdeen · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record
Costa Rica 16/07/2026 · Randall Jiménez · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record
Costa Rica 15/07/2026 · Edier Azofeifa Rodríguez · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record
Costa Rica 15/07/2026 · Randall Jiménez · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record
Costa Rica 14/07/2026 · Akash Easdon · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record
Colombia 13/07/2026 · juan_88 · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record
Nicaragua 13/07/2026 · Male · Cynthia Tercero · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record
Belize 13/07/2026 · Kirsten Engeseth · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

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