Nylanderia steinheili
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 steinheili

description: Nylanderia steinheili (Forel, 1893)
Materials
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordNumber: WAC 120; recordedBy: M. M. Silva, A. J. Mayhé Nunes, J. C. Santos, I. R. S. Cordeiro; individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 775FE0BD-78E6-52AC-A43E-69AC2A6A2CF7; Taxon: genus: Nylanderia; specificEpithet: steinheili; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: (Forel, 1893); 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 43.3S 43 17 28.9W; verbatimLatitude: 22 56 43.3S; verbatimLongitude: 43 17 28.9W; verbatimCoordinateSystem: degrees minutes seconds; verbatimSRS: WGS 84; Identification: identificationID: Nylanderia steinheili; identifiedBy: M. M. Silva; Event: samplingProtocol: Winckler; year: 2022; month: 1; day: 17-19; verbatimEventDate: Summer 2022; habitat: Atlantic Forest; Record Level: type: PhysicalObject; institutionCode: CEIOC; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordNumber: WBS 107; recordedBy: M. M. Silva, A. J. Mayhé Nunes, J. C. Santos, I. R. S. Cordeiro; individualCount: 5; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: F3A73076-3206-5B39-9611-D1FE155A3D81; Taxon: genus: Nylanderia; specificEpithet: steinheili; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: (Forel, 1893); 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 24.4S 43 16 56.7W; verbatimLatitude: 22 57 24.4S; verbatimLongitude: 43 16 56.7W; verbatimCoordinateSystem: degrees minutes seconds; verbatimSRS: WGS 84; Identification: identificationID: Nylanderia steinheili; 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: WCC 106; recordedBy: M. M. Silva, A. J. Mayhé Nunes, J. C. Santos, I. R. S. Cordeiro; individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 941A9A40-276A-52DD-8B79-B8F3AAF3DFC9; Taxon: genus: Nylanderia; specificEpithet: steinheili; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: (Forel, 1893); 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 42.2S 43 17 23.9W; verbatimLatitude: 22 57 42.2S; verbatimLongitude: 43 17 23.9W; verbatimCoordinateSystem: degrees minutes seconds; verbatimSRS: WGS 84; Identification: identificationID: Nylanderia steinheili; identifiedBy: M. M. Silva; Event: samplingProtocol: Winckler; year: 2022; month: 1; day: 21-23; verbatimEventDate: Summer 2022; habitat: Atlantic Forest; Record Level: type: PhysicalObject; institutionCode: CEIOC; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
Distribution
Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, French Guiana, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Venezuela. Exotic in Argentina, Bahamas, Cuba, Galápagos Islands, Hispianiola, Jamaica, Lesser Antilles, Seychelles and the United States. Introduced to Norway, United Kingdom and the Netherlands.
Notes
This is the first record for the PNT. Previously recorded by Kempf (1972) and Brandão (1991) from the State of Rio de Janeiro without details.
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