Heteroponera mayri Kempf, 1962

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-

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.12.e132248

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15017008

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scientific name

Heteroponera mayri Kempf, 1962
status

 

Heteroponera mayri Kempf, 1962 View in CoL

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: 2; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 58D6CF36-4FEF-5083-A197-7AAC007D72E1; Taxon: genus: Heteroponera ; specificEpithet: mayri ; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: Kempf, 1962; 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: Heteroponera mayri ; 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 GoogleMaps

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordNumber: WBS 105; recordedBy: M. M. Silva, A. J. Mayhé Nunes, J. C. Santos, I. R. S. Cordeiro; individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 32C3A15C-1CE7-5A82-9714-987E97CBDBE9; Taxon: genus: Heteroponera ; specificEpithet: mayri ; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: Kempf, 1962; 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 23.8S 43 16 57.7W; verbatimLatitude: 22 57 23.8S; verbatimLongitude: 43 16 57.7W; verbatimCoordinateSystem: degrees minutes seconds; verbatimSRS: WGS 84; Identification: identificationID: Heteroponera mayri ; 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 GoogleMaps

Distribution

Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Puerto Rico. Records from Colombia and Mexico need verification.

Notes

This is the first record for the PNT. Silva and Brandão (2014) recorded this species from other protected areas in the State of Rio de Janeiro.

Kempf W. W. 1962 Retoques a classificacao das formigas neotropicais do genero Heteroponera Mayr (Hym., Formicidae) Papeis Avulsos de Zoologia (Sao Paulo) 15 2947 10.11606 / 0031 - 1049.1962. 15. p 29 - 47

Silva Rogério R., Brandão Carlos Roberto F. 2014 Ecosystem-wide morphological structure of leaf-litter ant communities along a tropical latitudinal gradient PLoS ONE 9 3 10.1371/journal.pone.0093049

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

SubFamily

Ectatomminae

Genus

Heteroponera