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Atta cephalotes

Leafcutter ant

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Atta cephalotes (Linnaeus, 1758)

GBIF · view at source · updated on 03/07/2026
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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 · 8203 records GBIF · updated on 07/07/2026 Maximize Minimize
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Occurrences by year
1876: 2 1901: 1 1903: 4 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: 176 2004: 318 2005: 51 2006: 53 2007: 41 2008: 193 2009: 62 2010: 127 2011: 193 2012: 38 2013: 283 2014: 168 2015: 130 2016: 155 2017: 332 2018: 94 2019: 133 2020: 118 2021: 244 2022: 378 2023: 526 2024: 871 2025: 817 2026: 458
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YearRecords
18762
19011
19034
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
2003176
2004318
200551
200653
200741
2008193
200962
2010127
2011193
201238
2013283
2014168
2015130
2016155
2017332
201894
2019133
2020118
2021244
2022378
2023526
2024871
2025817
2026458
Costa Rica · 2,807 Colombia · 2,525 Mexico · 767 Brazil · 546 Ecuador · 286 Panama · 219 Belize · 212 Trinidad & Tobago · 208 Honduras · 157 Nicaragua · 140 Peru · 112 Guatemala · 91 French Guiana · 44 Venezuela · 29 Suriname · 17 Netherlands · 15 Bolivia · 7 Guyana · 7 Germany · 4 Barbados · 3 Cuba · 3 El Salvador · 3 Switzerland · 1
Belize 28/06/2026 · jesusqa99 · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record
Costa Rica 27/06/2026 · satucker · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record
Costa Rica 27/06/2026 · carito08 · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record
Honduras 25/06/2026 · Jefri García · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record
Costa Rica 24/06/2026 · kaitlyngwood · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record
Costa Rica 20/06/2026 · oliviabernhard · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record
Costa Rica 20/06/2026 · atlaseb · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record
Colombia 20/06/2026 · juan_88 · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record
Brazil 19/06/2026 · Gabriel Cardoso Fialho · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record
Mexico 16/06/2026 · Milagros maydely Velázquez · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

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