Sericomyrmex saussurei Emery 1894
Creators: name: Silva, Márcio Morais
name: Mayhé Nunes, Antônio J.
name: Moreira, Felipe F. F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Sericomyrmex
Sericomyrmex saussurei

description: Sericomyrmex saussurei Emery, 1894
Materials
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordNumber: WAS 118; recordedBy: M. M. Silva, A. J. Mayhé Nunes, J. C. Santos, I. R. S. Cordeiro; individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 3DC14678-E720-50FD-B55B-1EEE65A8B7AA; Taxon: genus: Sericomyrmex; specificEpithet: saussurei; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: Emery, 1894; 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 45.6S 43 17 32.5W; verbatimLatitude: 22 56 45.6S; verbatimLongitude: 43 17 32.5W; verbatimCoordinateSystem: degrees minutes seconds; verbatimSRS: WGS 84; Identification: identificationID: Sericomyrmex saussurei; 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
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordNumber: WBS 120; recordedBy: M. M. Silva, A. J. Mayhé Nunes, J. C. Santos, I. R. S. Cordeiro; individualCount: 15; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 6AD9B191-70BD-5D68-942C-0337128E2E1F; Taxon: genus: Sericomyrmex; specificEpithet: saussurei; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: Emery, 1894; 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 30.0S 43 16 58.3W; verbatimLatitude: 22 57 30.0S; verbatimLongitude: 43 16 58.3W; verbatimCoordinateSystem: degrees minutes seconds; verbatimSRS: WGS 84; Identification: identificationID: Sericomyrmex saussurei; 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 108; recordedBy: M. M. Silva, A. J. Mayhé Nunes, J. C. Santos, I. R. S. Cordeiro; individualCount: 6; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 6126D637-A6BC-5E06-A338-C7B3753008E9; Taxon: genus: Sericomyrmex; specificEpithet: saussurei; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: Emery, 1894; 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 41.6S 43 17 27.2W; verbatimLatitude: 22 57 41.6S; verbatimLongitude: 43 17 27.2W; verbatimCoordinateSystem: degrees minutes seconds; verbatimSRS: WGS 84; Identification: identificationID: Sericomyrmex saussurei; 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
Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Lesser Antilles, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela. Records from Mexico need verification.
Notes
This is the first record for PNT. Ješovnik and Schultz (2017) recorded this species from the Reserva Biológica do Tinguá and the Parque Nacional da Serra dos Órgãos, which are protected areas in the State of Rio de Janeiro.
description: Published as part of 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, pp. e 132248 in Biodiversity Data Journal 13 on page e132248, DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.12.e132248