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This work was aimed at experimentally studying whether climatic variables act as environmental cues for workers’ building behaviour in leaf-cutting ants of the genus Acromyrmex, and to what extent building responses account for the maintenance of nest climate in a proper range for the inhabiting colony. Specifically, this work presents independent analysis in different Acromyrmex species with disparate ecology and nesting habits, aimed at understanding to what extent: i) temperature and humidity act as cues for workers’ building behaviour, ii) inter- and intraspecific differences in the nesting habits observed in South American Acromyrmex are based on distinct building behaviours and on the variation in regional climate across continent, iii) differences in nest architecture account for the maintenance of nest climate in a proper range for colony members and, iv) climatic variables trigger building responses aimed at controlling short-term changes in nest climate. It is first experimentally shown that soil temperature acts as a cue for workers’ digging behaviour. Acromyrmex lundi workers were observed to respond to both soil temperature as well as its changes, and to decide accordingly where to start or whether to stop digging. The soil temperature range preferred by workers to dig, between 20°C and maximally 30.6°C, matches the range at which colony growth is expected to be maximized. Temperature-sensitive digging might therefore lead to the establishment of the fungus chambers in soil layers with a proper range of temperatures for colony growth. Based on that, it was hypothesized that nest depth in Acromyrmex largely depends on the depth at which this temperature range is located across the soil profile, i.e., the higher the temperature in the superficial soil layers, the deeper the nest location, since soil temperature decreases with increasing depth. A bibliographic survey on nesting habits of 21 South American Acromyrmex species confirmed that the warmer the soil temperature at 50 cm depth throughout the South American continent, the higher the number of species presenting subterranean nests, compared with those inhabiting superficial nests. Temperature-sensitive digging in Acromyrmex would therefore explain the geographical distribution of nesting habits observed for this genus in the South American continent, i.e., subterranean in the northern tropical regions, and superficial in the southern temperate ones. In addition, results showed that Acromyrmex colonies from temperate regions indeed achieve thermoregulatory benefits through the determination of nest depth based on thermoregulatory needs. In sympatrically-occurring colonies of the grass-cutting ant A. heyeri, temperature inside superficial thatched nests was higher, and more suitable for colony growth, than that inside subterranean nests. This temperature surplus was even higher in spring, at the time of production of sexual brood, than in winter or summer. It was demonstrated that such temperature surplus was brought about by the low thermal diffusivity of the nest thatch, which prevents diurnal nest overheating by the incoming solar radiation, and avoids losses of the accumulated daily heat into the cold air during night, thus leading to high average nest temperatures. Although highly advantageous for colonies in terms of nest temperature, the determination of nest depth based on thermoregulatory needs may differentially affect nest ventilation and humidity depending on how nest exposition influences the exchange of nest air with the outside air. For instance, colonies with a superficial nesting habit might benefit from improved nest ventilation, but be at risk of desiccation due to their exposition and the consequent humidity losses into the dry outside air. Results demonstrated that in two Acromyrmex species, short-term regulatory building responses triggered and spatially organized by climatic variables occur, and may counteract undesired changes in internal nest humidity. Workers of the thatching grass-cutting ant A. heyeri, for instance, closed a number of nest-thatch openings as a response to desiccation of the outside air, even at a nest temperature that otherwise triggered the response of opening them so as to reduce nest temperature. In the leaf-cutting ant A. ambiguus, the direction of the airflow inside nest tunnels was shown to act as a cue for spatially guiding the building behaviour of plugging nest entrances. However, workers only responded if the humidity content of the circulating air was low, trading therefore nest ventilation for humidity maintenance.