Myrmelachista bettinae Forel, 1903

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-

Myrmelachista bettinae Forel, 1903

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordNumber: PBC 106; recordedBy: M. M. Silva, A. J. Mayhé Nunes, J. C. Santos, I. R. S. Cordeiro; individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 3BC1F4A8-5B56-5078-B8EB-802F6004780A; Taxon: genus: Myrmelachista ; specificEpithet: bettinae ; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: Forel, 1903; 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 (caminho dos picos / camminho da solidão) ; verbatimCoordinates: 22 57 23.3S 43 16 59.4W; verbatimLatitude: 22 57 23.3S; verbatimLongitude: 43 16 59.4W; verbatimCoordinateSystem: degrees minutes seconds; verbatimSRS: WGS 84; Identification: identificationID: Myrmelachista bettinae ; identifiedBy: M. M. Silva; Event: samplingProtocol: Pitfall; year: 2022; month: 1; day: 17-21; verbatimEventDate: Summer 2022; habitat: Atlantic Forest; Record Level: type: PhysicalObject; institutionCode: CEIOC; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Distribution

Endemic from the State of Rio de Janeiro.

Notes

This is the first record for the Floresta da Tijuca sector. Kempf (1972) recorded it from the Serra da Carioca sector.