Megalomyrmex goeldii Forel 1912
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
Megalomyrmex
Megalomyrmex goeldii

description: Megalomyrmex goeldii Forel, 1912
Materials
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordNumber: WAC 115; recordedBy: M. M. Silva, A. J. Mayhé Nunes, J. C. Santos, I. R. S. Cordeiro; individualCount: 8; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 57BA11A7-E51C-5E5D-B072-C5C127E2DA08; Taxon: genus: Megalomyrmex; specificEpithet: goeldii; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: Forel, 1912; 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: Megalomyrmex goeldii; 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 116; recordedBy: M. M. Silva, A. J. Mayhé Nunes, J. C. Santos, I. R. S. Cordeiro; individualCount: 20; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 4C1EE0B1-85CB-5EA8-911F-94898884BF38; Taxon: genus: Megalomyrmex; specificEpithet: goeldii; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: Forel, 1912; 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 30.2S 43 16 57.17W; verbatimLatitude: 22 57 30.2S; verbatimLongitude: 43 16 57.17W; verbatimCoordinateSystem: degrees minutes seconds; verbatimSRS: WGS 84; Identification: identificationID: Megalomyrmex goeldii; 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 102; recordedBy: M. M. Silva, A. J. Mayhé Nunes, J. C. Santos, I. R. S. Cordeiro; individualCount: 15; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 1F7C5AF3-A562-56BB-A97D-5486968838F3; Taxon: genus: Megalomyrmex; specificEpithet: goeldii; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: Forel, 1912; 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 42.0S 43 17 23.9W; verbatimLatitude: 22 57 42.0S; verbatimLongitude: 43 17 23.9W; verbatimCoordinateSystem: degrees minutes seconds; verbatimSRS: WGS 84; Identification: identificationID: Megalomyrmex goeldii; 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
Endemic from Brazil.
Notes
Brandão (1990) recorded this species from " Floresta da Tijuca " 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