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Atta sexdens

Leafcutter ant

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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 · 975 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	11
2019	24
2020	14
2021	18
2022	37
2023	63
2024	88
2025	188
2026	35

Brazil · 596 Colombia · 112 Panama · 70 Argentina · 63 Peru · 27 French Guiana · 25 Paraguay · 24 Nicaragua · 16 Bolivia · 14 Venezuela · 9 Guyana · 6 Mexico · 4 Suriname · 3 China · 2 Ecuador · 2 Germany · 1 Uruguay · 1

Brazil 26/06/2026 · Female · phil1992 · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

Brazil 19/06/2026 · Mylena Olimpio · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

Brazil 12/06/2026 · Gabriel Cardoso Fialho · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

Brazil 02/06/2026 · aspencaim · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

Brazil 30/05/2026 · Female · Guilherme Perrud · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

Brazil 30/05/2026 · Paulo Alves · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

Brazil 28/05/2026 · Claudio Novaes · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

Brazil 23/05/2026 · Sophia · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

Brazil 23/05/2026 · Andrii Khokhlov · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode · original record

Brazil 23/05/2026 · Daniel Schelesky · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

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