Pachycondyla harpax
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
Pachycondyla
Pachycondyla harpax

description: Pachycondyla harpax (Fabricius, 1804)
Materials
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordNumber: PAS 202; recordedBy: M. M. Silva, A. J. Mayhé Nunes, J. C. Santos, I. R. S. Cordeiro; individualCount: 2; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: D0556847-A556-5E03-9FD4-AB546ABBDB0B; Taxon: genus: Pachycondyla; specificEpithet: harpax; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: (Fabricius, 1804); 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 57 27.0S 43 16 55.4W; verbatimLatitude: 22 57 27.0S; verbatimLongitude: 43 16 55.4W; verbatimCoordinateSystem: degrees minutes seconds; verbatimSRS: WGS 84; Identification: identificationID: Pachycondyla harpax; 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
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordNumber: WBS 112; recordedBy: M. M. Silva, A. J. Mayhé Nunes, J. C. Santos, I. R. S. Cordeiro; individualCount: 2; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: E175E677-7C91-58B0-9D61-55DBC7D9CA75; Taxon: genus: Pachycondyla; specificEpithet: harpax; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: (Fabricius, 1804); 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 40.0S 43 17 28.5W; verbatimLatitude: 22 57 40.0S; verbatimLongitude: 43 17 28.5W; verbatimCoordinateSystem: degrees minutes seconds; verbatimSRS: WGS 84; Identification: identificationID: Pachycondyla harpax; identifiedBy: M. M. Silva; Event: samplingProtocol: Pitfall; 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: PCS 102; recordedBy: M. M. Silva, A. J. Mayhé Nunes, J. C. Santos, I. R. S. Cordeiro; individualCount: 15; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 2EE6E05B-180D-5760-BB18-92A5E9B89A3B; Taxon: genus: Pachycondyla; specificEpithet: harpax; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: (Fabricius, 1804); 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 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: Pachycondyla harpax; identifiedBy: M. M. Silva; Event: samplingProtocol: Pitfall; year: 2021; month: 7; day: 21-23; verbatimEventDate: Winter 2021; habitat: Atlantic Forest; Record Level: type: PhysicalObject; institutionCode: CEIOC; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
Distribution
Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, United States, Venezuela. Exotic in Jamaica, Lesser Antilles and the State of Georgia (United States).
Notes
This is the first record from the Floresta da Tijuca sector. Previously recorded by Vargas et al. (2013) and Santos et al. (2019) from 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