Nylanderia steinheili (Forel, 1893)

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-

Nylanderia steinheili (Forel, 1893)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordNumber: WAC 120; recordedBy: M. M. Silva, A. J. Mayhé Nunes, J. C. Santos, I. R. S. Cordeiro; individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 775FE0BD-78E6-52AC-A43E-69AC2A6A2CF7; Taxon: genus: Nylanderia ; specificEpithet: steinheili ; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: (Forel, 1893); 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 43.3S 43 17 28.9W; verbatimLatitude: 22 56 43.3S; verbatimLongitude: 43 17 28.9W; verbatimCoordinateSystem: degrees minutes seconds; verbatimSRS: WGS 84; Identification: identificationID: Nylanderia steinheili ; 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

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordNumber: WBS 107; recordedBy: M. M. Silva, A. J. Mayhé Nunes, J. C. Santos, I. R. S. Cordeiro; individualCount: 5; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: F3A73076-3206-5B39-9611-D1FE155A3D81; Taxon: genus: Nylanderia ; specificEpithet: steinheili ; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: (Forel, 1893); 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 24.4S 43 16 56.7W; verbatimLatitude: 22 57 24.4S; verbatimLongitude: 43 16 56.7W; verbatimCoordinateSystem: degrees minutes seconds; verbatimSRS: WGS 84; Identification: identificationID: Nylanderia steinheili ; identifiedBy: M. M. Silva; Event: samplingProtocol: Winckler; year: 2021; month: 7; day: 21-23; verbatimEventDate: Winter 2021; habitat: Atlantic Forest; Record Level: type: PhysicalObject; institutionCode: CEIOC; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordNumber: WCC 106; recordedBy: M. M. Silva, A. J. Mayhé Nunes, J. C. Santos, I. R. S. Cordeiro; individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 941A9A40-276A-52DD-8B79-B8F3AAF3DFC9; Taxon: genus: Nylanderia ; specificEpithet: steinheili ; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: (Forel, 1893); 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 42.2S 43 17 23.9W; verbatimLatitude: 22 57 42.2S; verbatimLongitude: 43 17 23.9W; verbatimCoordinateSystem: degrees minutes seconds; verbatimSRS: WGS 84; Identification: identificationID: Nylanderia steinheili ; identifiedBy: M. M. Silva; Event: samplingProtocol: Winckler; year: 2022; month: 1; day: 21-23; verbatimEventDate: Summer 2022; habitat: Atlantic Forest; Record Level: type: PhysicalObject; institutionCode: CEIOC; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Distribution

Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, French Guiana, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Venezuela. Exotic in Argentina, Bahamas, Cuba, Galápagos Islands, Hispianiola, Jamaica, Lesser Antilles, Seychelles and the United States. Introduced to Norway, United Kingdom and the Netherlands.

Notes

This is the first record for the PNT. Previously recorded by Kempf (1972) and Brandão (1991) from the State of Rio de Janeiro without details.