Wasmannia auropunctata (Roger, 1863)

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-

Wasmannia auropunctata (Roger, 1863)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordNumber: PCS 115; recordedBy: M. M. Silva, A. J. Mayhé Nunes, J. C. Santos, I. R. S. Cordeiro; individualCount: 15; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: C1D2B3F1-D9E7-5967-94FF-BBDF8822C86C; Taxon: genus: Wasmannia ; specificEpithet: auropunctata ; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: (Roger, 1863); 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 41.9S 43 17 23.3W; verbatimLatitude: 22 57 41.9S; verbatimLongitude: 43 17 23.3W; verbatimCoordinateSystem: degrees minutes seconds; verbatimSRS: WGS 84; Identification: identificationID: Wasmannia auropunctata ; identifiedBy: M. M. Silva; Event: samplingProtocol: Pitfall; year: 2021; month: 7; day: 23-25; verbatimEventDate: Winter 2021; habitat: Atlantic Forest; Record Level: type: PhysicalObject; institutionCode: CEIOC; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Distribution

Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, Venezuela. Introduced to Canada, midwest United States, Germany, United Kingdom, the Netherlands and New Zealand. Exotic in portions of the Afrotropical, Australian, Nearctic, Neotropical, Oceanian, Oriental, Palearctic, Panamanian, Saharo-Arabian and Sino-Japanese Regions. Records from the State of Arizona ( United States), South Africa, Keeling Islands, Indonesia, New Guinea and Cook Islands need verification. Records from continental Italy and Tuvalu are dubious.

Notes

This is the first record for Floresta da Tijuca sector. Previously recorded by Vargas et al. (2013) and Santos et al. (2019) from the Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden and the Reserva Florestal da Vista Chinesa, both in the Serra da Carioca sector.