Nylanderia guatemalensis
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
Nylanderia
Nylanderia guatemalensis

description: Nylanderia guatemalensis (Forel, 1885)
Materials
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordNumber: WAC 105; recordedBy: M. M. Silva, A. J. Mayhé Nunes, J. C. Santos, I. R. S. Cordeiro; individualCount: 2; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 97098107-A66D-5809-8BDB-7B87B957FC2B; Taxon: genus: Nylanderia; specificEpithet: guatemalensis; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: (Forel, 1885); 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 47.7S 43 17 33.1W; verbatimLatitude: 22 56 47.7S; verbatimLongitude: 43 17 33.1W; verbatimCoordinateSystem: degrees minutes seconds; verbatimSRS: WGS 84; Identification: identificationID: Nylanderia guatemalensis; identifiedBy: M. M. Silva; Event: samplingProtocol: Winckler; year: 2022; month: 1; day: 17-21; verbatimEventDate: Summer 2022; habitat: Atlantic Forest; Record Level: type: PhysicalObject; institutionCode: CEIOC; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordNumber: PBC 106; recordedBy: M. M. Silva, A. J. Mayhé Nunes, J. C. Santos, I. R. S. Cordeiro; individualCount: 4; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 747E7ACE-8B08-5E98-9623-D68E2DB83B11; Taxon: genus: Nylanderia; specificEpithet: guatemalensis; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: (Forel, 1885); 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 23.7S 43 16 59.7W; verbatimLatitude: 22 57 23.7S; verbatimLongitude: 43 16 59.7W; verbatimCoordinateSystem: degrees minutes seconds; verbatimSRS: WGS 84; Identification: identificationID: Nylanderia guatemalensis; identifiedBy: M. M. Silva; Event: samplingProtocol: Pitfall; year: 2022; month: 1; day: 17-21; verbatimEventDate: Summer 2022; habitat: Atlantic Forest; Record Level: type: PhysicalObject; institutionCode: CEIOC; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
Distribution
Belize, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Venezuela. Exotic in northern Mexico, south-eastern United States, Bahamas, Cocos Island, Cuba, Galápagos Islands, Hispaniola, Jamaica, Lesser Antilles and Trinidad and Tobago. Introduced to mid-western United States, Germany, Netherlands and the United Kingdom. Records from south-western United States and the State of Sonora (Mexico) need verification.
Notes
This is the first record for the Floresta da Tijuca sector. This species was recorded by Santos et al. (2019) from the Reserva Florestal da Vista Chinesa, in the Serra da Carioca sector.
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