Oxyepoecus myops Albuquerque & Brandão, 2009

Silva, Márcio Morais, Mayhé Nunes, Antônio J. & Moreira, Felipe F. F., 2025, Ants (Insecta, Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from the Floresta da Tijuca sector, Parque Nacional da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Biodiversity Data Journal 13, pp. e 132248-e 132248 : e132248-

Oxyepoecus myops Albuquerque & Brandão, 2009

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordNumber: WAC 103; recordedBy: M. M. Silva, A. J. Mayhé Nunes, J. C. Santos, I. R. S. Cordeiro; individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 3AA3134E-C79F-5FB8-8B46-0E9F9618D102; Taxon: genus: Oxyepoecus ; specificEpithet: myops ; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: Albuquerque & Brandão, 2009; Location: continent: South America; country: Brazil; countryCode: BR; stateProvince: Rio de Janeiro; municipality: Rio de Janeiro; locality: Floresta da Tijuca, Parque Nacional da Tijuca, Bom Retiro (trilha para o pico da Tijuca) ; verbatimCoordinates: 22 56 48.3S 43 17 32.2W; verbatimLatitude: 22 56 48.3S; verbatimLongitude: 43 17 32.2W; verbatimCoordinateSystem: degrees minutes seconds; verbatimSRS: WGS 84; Identification: identificationID: Oxyepoecus myops ; identifiedBy: M. M. Silva; Event: samplingProtocol: Winckler; year: 2022; month: 1; day: 17-19; verbatimEventDate: Summer 2022; habitat: Atlantic Forest; Record Level: type: PhysicalObject; institutionCode: CEIOC; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Distribution

Endemic from Brazil.

Notes

This is the first record for PNT. This species was recorded by Albuquerque and Brandão (2009) and Lasmar et al. (2020) from other protected areas in the State of Rio de Janeiro, such as the Parque Nacional da Serra dos Órgãos and the Reserva Biológica do Tinguá.