Hypoponera trigona
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
Hypoponera
Hypoponera trigona

description: Hypoponera trigona (Mayr, 1887)
Materials
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordNumber: WAC 104; recordedBy: M. M. Silva, A. J. Mayhé Nunes, J. C. Santos, I. R. S. Cordeiro; individualCount: 18; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 193B7721-DD2A-535D-9AB9-4E4B6A62E795; Taxon: genus: Hypoponera; specificEpithet: trigona; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: (Mayr, 1887); 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 48.4S 43 17 32.7W; verbatimLatitude: 22 56 48.4S; verbatimLongitude: 43 17 32.7W; verbatimCoordinateSystem: degrees minutes seconds; verbatimSRS: WGS 84; Identification: identificationID: Hypoponera trigona; 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 109; recordedBy: M. M. Silva, A. J. Mayhé Nunes, J. C. Santos, I. R. S. Cordeiro; individualCount: 8; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: F8480DA7-FF47-562E-95E0-AF84C11E7C16; Taxon: genus: Hypoponera; specificEpithet: trigona; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: (Mayr, 1887); 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 25.3S 43 16 56.2W; verbatimLatitude: 22 57 25.3S; verbatimLongitude: 43 16 56.2W; verbatimCoordinateSystem: degrees minutes seconds; verbatimSRS: WGS 84; Identification: identificationID: Hypoponera trigona; 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 112; recordedBy: M. M. Silva, A. J. Mayhé Nunes, J. C. Santos, I. R. S. Cordeiro; individualCount: 14; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 40B5BCC3-60C1-5A7E-828A-5AF81C7152DF; Taxon: genus: Hypoponera; specificEpithet: trigona; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: (Mayr, 1887); 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 40.4S 43 17 28.1W; verbatimLatitude: 22 57 40.4S; verbatimLongitude: 43 17 28.1W; verbatimCoordinateSystem: degrees minutes seconds; verbatimSRS: WGS 84; Identification: identificationID: Hypoponera trigona; 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
Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Paraguay. Exotic in the Easter Island. Records from Bahamas, Cuba, Lesser Antilles and the United States need verification. Records from Juan Fernandez Islands and Society Islands are dubious.
Notes
This species was recorded by Kempf (1962) 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