Brachymyrmex degener Emery, 1906

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 degener Emery, 1906

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordNumber: WAS 102; recordedBy: M. M. Silva, A. J. Mayhé Nunes, J. C. Santos, I. R. S. Cordeiro; individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 2B620AF0-0C3F-508A-A08D-5FF59E5D8A6A; Taxon: genus: Brachymyrmex ; specificEpithet: degener ; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: Emery, 1906; 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 47.5S 43 17 30.6W; verbatimLatitude: 22 56 47.5S; verbatimLongitude: 43 17 30.6W; verbatimCoordinateSystem: degrees minutes seconds; verbatimSRS: WGS 84; Identification: identificationID: Brachymyrmex degener ; identifiedBy: M. M. Silva; Event: samplingProtocol: Winckler; year: 2021; month: 7; day: 19-21; verbatimEventDate: Winter 2021; habitat: Atlantic Forest; Record Level: type: PhysicalObject; institutionCode: CEIOC; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Distribution

Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Trinidad and Tobago.

Notes

This is the first record for the State of Rio de Janeiro, which contributes to fill a gap between the States of Bahia to the north and São Paulo to the south.