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Atta cephalotes
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| Atta cephalotes worker carrying leaf segment | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
| Genus: | Atta |
| Species: | A. cephalotes
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Atta cephalotes is a species of leafcutter ant in the tribe Attini (the fungus-growing ants). A single colony of ants can contain up to 5 million members, and each colony has one queen that can live more than 20 years. The colony comprises different castes, known as "task partitioning", and each caste has a different job to do.[2]
- ^ "Species: Atta cephalotes". AntWeb. 2010-06-30. Retrieved 2010-08-20.
- ^ Wilson, Edward O. (December 1983). "Caste and division of labor in leaf-cutter ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Atta): III. Ergonomic resiliency in foraging by A. cephalotes". Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 14 (1): 47–54. doi:10.1007/BF00366655. ISSN 0340-5443. S2CID 23048898.
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