Name - Atta vollenweideri

Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)

urn:lsid:organismnames.com:name:71334 [metadata]

Variants and Synonyms

• Atta vollenweideri Borgmeier 1939

• Atta vollenweideri Santschi 1919

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Recent Publications

• Strong positive allometry of bite force in leaf-cutter ants increases the range of cuttable plant tissues.
• Three-dimensional kinematics of leaf-cutter ant mandibles: not all dicondylic joints are simple hinges.
• Herbivory by Atta vollenweideri: Reviewing the significance of grass-cutting ants as a pest of livestock.
• Biomechanics of cutting: sharpness, wear sensitivity and the scaling of cutting forces in leaf-cutter ant mandibles.
• Large deformation diffeomorphic mapping of 3D shape variation reveals two distinct mandible and head capsule morphs in Atta vollenweideri leaf-cutter worker ants.

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