Leptogenys luederwaldti Forel, 1913

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-

Leptogenys luederwaldti Forel, 1913

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordNumber: PAC 108; recordedBy: M. M. Silva, A. J. Mayhé Nunes, J. C. Santos, I. R. S. Cordeiro; individualCount: 2; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 545FF66F-0FD6-5C80-B3D6-181773D01F28; Taxon: genus: Leptogenys ; specificEpithet: luederwaldti ; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: Forel, 1913; 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 47.2S 43 17 30.3W; verbatimLatitude: 22 56 47.2S; verbatimLongitude: 43 17 30.3W; verbatimCoordinateSystem: degrees minutes seconds; verbatimSRS: WGS 84; Identification: identificationID: Leptogenys luederwaldti ; identifiedBy: M. M. Silva; Event: samplingProtocol: Pitfall; year: 2022; month: 1; day: 17-19; verbatimEventDate: Summer 2022; habitat: Atlantic Forest; Record Level: type: PhysicalObject; institutionCode: CEIOC; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordNumber: PCC 105; recordedBy: M. M. Silva, A. J. Mayhé Nunes, J. C. Santos, I. R. S. Cordeiro; individualCount: 4; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 084EFE36-A705-5993-8E08-772B6722AA64; Taxon: genus: Leptogenys ; specificEpithet: luederwaldti ; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: Forel, 1913; Location: continent: South America; country: Brazil; countryCode: BR; stateProvince: Rio de Janeiro; municipality: Rio de Janeiro; locality: Floresta da Tijuca, Parque Nacional da Tijuca, Trilha de Moutain bike (Açude da solidão). ; verbatimCoordinates: 22 57 42.1S 43 17 24.7W; verbatimLatitude: 22 57 42.1S; verbatimLongitude: 43 17 24.7W; verbatimCoordinateSystem: degrees minutes seconds; verbatimSRS: WGS 84; Identification: identificationID: Leptogenys luederwaldti ; identifiedBy: M. M. Silva; Event: samplingProtocol: Pitfall; year: 2022; month: 1; day: 23-25; verbatimEventDate: Summer 2022; habitat: Atlantic Forest; Record Level: type: PhysicalObject; institutionCode: CEIOC; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Distribution

Endemic from eastern Brazil.

Notes

This is the first record for the PNT. This species was previously recorded by Kempf (1972) and Lattke (2011) from the Municipality of Petrópolis, located approximately 70 km north of Rio de Janeiro.