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Atta laevigata
Sao Paulo, Brazil

photograph © Alex Wild 2003

Atta leaf-cutting ants have an elaborate caste system, with extreme variation in worker size. 
Notice here the minor worker at the lower right, not even as long as the hind tarsi of the major worker at left.


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