Species: Acromyrmex octospinosus 
 
Breeding difficulty: Medium
 
Castes : Yes
 
Size :
Queen: 12 millimeters
Workers: 3-10 millimeters

 
Foundation type: Claustrale independent
 
Harvesting area: Guadeloupe 
 
Number of gynes: Polygynous
 
Rearing temperatures: 20-26 degrees
 
Rearing humidity: 75-90
 
Food: Various plants
 
Hibernation: No
 
Nest type: Leafcutter-type installation consisting of various tanks
 
Adult colony size: several tens of thousands to several hundreds of thousands of workers
 
Description: Acromyrmex octospinosus is a species of leaf-cutting ant that lives in a fungus and feeds on plants. The fungus in turn feeds the colony.