Acromyrmex octospinosus

Leafcutter ant

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Acromyrmex octospinosus (Reich, 1793)

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

Leaf-cutting ant

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Animalia · Arthropoda · Insecta · Hymenoptera · Formicidae · Acromyrmex

Leaf-cutter ant

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

(c) Tom Murray, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Tom Murray · CC BY-NC · iNaturalist

Occurrences (GBIF) 23 countries · 2202 records

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Year	Records
1912	1
1913	1
1918	2
1922	2
1930	1
1932	1
1935	82
1936	12
1948	1
1949	1
1950	2
1957	7
1960	1
1963	4
1968	5
1969	5
1970	3
1971	9
1972	5
1973	9
1974	10
1975	29
1979	1
1980	1
1981	1
1982	3
1983	1
1984	5
1985	16
1986	3
1987	5
1988	15
1989	113
1990	92
1991	25
1992	30
1993	60
1994	15
1995	42
1996	4
1997	75
1998	5
1999	13
2000	23
2001	50
2002	34
2003	67
2004	45
2005	7
2006	11
2007	4
2008	58
2009	32
2010	39
2011	67
2012	12
2013	34
2014	9
2015	13
2016	21
2017	15
2018	20
2019	46
2020	58
2021	87
2022	160
2023	61
2024	121
2025	143
2026	175

Costa Rica · 476 Colombia · 465 Trinidad & Tobago · 415 Mexico · 315 Guadeloupe · 271 Nicaragua · 65 Panama · 41 Ecuador · 31 Honduras · 29 Cuba · 21 Guatemala · 16 Venezuela · 15 Peru · 11 Brazil · 8 Guyana · 6 French Guiana · 5 St. Barthélemy · 3 El Salvador · 3 Curaçao · 2 Denmark · 1 France · 1 Suriname · 1 Unknown Region · 1

El Salvador 22/06/2026 · Brayan Ismael Guevara Mata · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

Mexico 20/06/2026 · Daniel Aviles · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

Mexico 19/06/2026 · Ignacio Soberón · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

Mexico 18/06/2026 · Alan Jeon · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

Panama 17/06/2026 · natureboy1201 · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

Mexico 17/06/2026 · Alan Jeon · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

Costa Rica 15/06/2026 · zakry7 · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

Mexico 11/06/2026 · Ben Zerante · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

Guadeloupe 10/06/2026 · David Zipper · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

Mexico 08/06/2026 · layla by the sea · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

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