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Atta sexdens

Leafcutter ant

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Atta sexdens

AntCat · view at source · updated on 21/07/2026

Author: (Linnaeus, 1758) species Valid name

Formicidae

Atta sexdens (Linnaeus, 1758)

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

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Animalia · Arthropoda · Insecta · Hymenoptera · Formicidae · Atta

Atta sexdens

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

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species of ant

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(c) arturbocchi, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · CC BY-NC · iNaturalist

(c) Observações Naturalistas | Bruno Uehara, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Observações Naturalistas | Bruno Uehara · CC BY-NC · iNaturalist

(c) José Valério G. Escrig, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by José Valério G. Escrig · CC BY-NC · iNaturalist

(c) Jonghyun Park, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Jonghyun Park · CC BY · iNaturalist

Occurrences (GBIF) 17 countries · 1005 records

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Year	Records
1911	1
1922	1
1935	13
1938	6
1944	5
1947	2
1960	9
1964	1
1967	1
1968	2
1969	1
1970	2
1971	9
1972	9
1975	12
1976	22
1977	15
1978	31
1979	5
1980	1
1981	5
1982	4
1983	4
1986	1
1988	4
1989	21
1990	1
1991	2
1992	2
1993	3
1994	5
1995	7
1996	1
1998	7
1999	3
2000	5
2001	3
2002	1
2003	1
2005	4
2006	8
2007	4
2008	1
2009	4
2010	19
2011	34
2012	55
2013	9
2014	14
2015	13
2016	13
2017	11
2018	12
2019	24
2020	14
2021	18
2022	38
2023	71
2024	87
2025	187
2026	57

Brazil · 622 Colombia · 112 Panama · 72 Argentina · 64 Peru · 27 French Guiana · 25 Paraguay · 24 Nicaragua · 16 Bolivia · 15 Venezuela · 9 Guyana · 6 Mexico · 4 Suriname · 3 China · 2 Ecuador · 2 Germany · 1 Uruguay · 1

Brazil 06/08/2026 · Pedro Augusto · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

Brazil 05/08/2026 · Luiz Miguel Gigliotti · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

Brazil 01/08/2026 · niko · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

Brazil 31/07/2026 · mike_cove · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode · original record

Brazil 26/07/2026 · Female · The Great Walter · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode · original record

Brazil 26/07/2026 · Renato Machado de Sobral · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

Brazil 25/07/2026 · Female · The Great Walter · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode · original record

Brazil 25/07/2026 · Jailson Sandes · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

Brazil 24/07/2026 · Igor · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

Brazil 23/07/2026 · Tristan Kastrop · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

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