last updated 26.Apr.2008
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Acromyrmex (leafcutter ants)
Acromyrmex is a genus of agricultural ants. These distinctive spiny insects cut fresh vegetation to feed to a specialized fungus that grows only in ant nests. The fungus serves as the ants' food source and in return is cultivated and dispersed by the ants. Like other fungus-growing ants, Acromyrmex are found only in the new world tropics and subtropics. Acromyrmex is the more diverse of the two leaf-cutter genera (the other genus is Atta).
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Subgenus Acromyrmex
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Subgenus Moellerius
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