Brachymyrmex australis Forel, 1901

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-

Brachymyrmex australis Forel, 1901

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: 5; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: C59CC7D8-25BC-5212-81A7-97DF6B7EF23F; Taxon: genus: Brachymyrmex ; specificEpithet: australis ; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: Forel, 1901; 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 30.2W; verbatimLatitude: 22 56 48.3S; verbatimLongitude: 43 17 30.2W; verbatimCoordinateSystem: degrees minutes seconds; verbatimSRS: WGS 84; Identification: identificationID: Brachymyrmex australis ; 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 113; recordedBy: M. M. Silva, A. J. Mayhé Nunes, J. C. Santos, I. R. S. Cordeiro; individualCount: 4; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 7FF2A111-704D-52B6-AC1D-C697F0EE5823; Taxon: genus: Brachymyrmex ; specificEpithet: australis ; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: Forel, 1901; 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 27.8S 43 16 57.3W; verbatimLatitude: 22 57 27.8S; verbatimLongitude: 43 16 57.3W; verbatimCoordinateSystem: degrees minutes seconds; verbatimSRS: WGS 84; Identification: identificationID: Brachymyrmex australis ; 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: WCS 119; recordedBy: M. M. Silva, A. J. Mayhé Nunes, J. C. Santos, I. R. S. Cordeiro; individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: BA46C87A-96B4-55BB-B2E2-B5FFA77FAE41; Taxon: genus: Brachymyrmex ; specificEpithet: australis ; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: Forel, 1901; 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 39.8S 43 17 30.9W; verbatimLatitude: 22 57 39.8S; verbatimLongitude: 43 17 30.9W; verbatimCoordinateSystem: degrees minutes seconds; verbatimSRS: WGS 84; Identification: identificationID: Brachymyrmex australis ; identifiedBy: M. M. Silva; Event: samplingProtocol: Winckler; year: 2021; month: 7; day: 23-25; verbatimEventDate: Winter 2021; habitat: Atlantic Forest; Record Level: type: PhysicalObject; institutionCode: CEIOC; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Distribution

Argentina, Bahamas, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Hispaniola, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay. Exotic in the Mascarene Islands. Introduced to Germany.

Notes

This is the first record for the PNT. Ortiz-Sepulveda et al. (2019) recorded this species from another protected area in the State of Rio de Janeiro state.