Atta mexicana

Atta mexicana
Worker of Atta mexicana at Montreal Insectarium
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Myrmicinae
Genus:	Atta
Species:	A. mexicana
Binomial name
Atta mexicana (F. Smith, 1858)[1]

Atta mexicana is a species of leaf-cutter ant, a New World ant of the subfamily Myrmicinae of the genus Atta. This species is from one of the two genera of advanced attines (fungus-growing ants) within the tribe Attini.