Atta Fabricius, 1804 valid feminine
Atta Fabricius, 1804: 421 Type-species: Formica cephalotes (obsolete combination of Atta cephalotes), by subsequent designation of Wheeler, 1911g: 159.
Junior synonyms
Genus Atta catalogues

Mayr, 1863a: 395, 437 (Atta, Oecodoma); Roger, 1863b: 35; Cresson, 1887: 259 (U.S.A.); Dalla Torre, 1893: 150; Emery, 1924f: 352; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 82 (Asia, anachronisms); Smith, 1951c: 832 (North America); Kempf, 1972b: 26 (Neotropical); Smith, 1979: 1413 (North America); Brandão, 1991: 328; Bolton, 1995b: 75.

Genus Atta references

Mayr, 1855: 459 (diagnosis); Smith, 1858a: 161, 180 (Atta, Oecodoma diagnoses); Mayr, 1861: 65, 66 (diagnosis, Europe Atta species key (recte Aphaenogaster + Messor)); Mayr, 1865: 18 (diagnosis); Gallardo, 1916e: 340 (Argentina species key); Emery, 1924f: 352 (diagnosis); Gonçalves, 1942: 334 (all species key); Gonçalves, 1947a: 186 (south and central Brazil species key); Borgmeier, 1959b: 335 (subgenera key); Borgmeier, 1959b: 337 (diagnosis, all species revision, key); MacKay & MacKay, 1988: 25 (Colombia species key); Cherrett & Cherrett, 1989: 1 (bibliography); Bolton, 1994: 105 (synoptic classification); Bolton, 1995a: 1048 (census); Fernández et al., 2015: 97 (Colombia species key); Baccaro et al., 2015: 212 (genus in Brazil); Cantone, 2017: 189 (brief male diagnosis); Fernández & Serna, 2019: 841 (Colombia species key); Barrera et al., 2022: 13 (phylogeny, divergence dating, biogeography).

Citations

Extant: 15 valid species, 1 valid subspecies

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