Nylanderia fulva
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 fulva

description: Nylanderia fulva (Mayr, 1862)
Materials
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordNumber: WBS 101; recordedBy: M. M. Silva, A. J. Mayhé Nunes, J. C. Santos, I. R. S. Cordeiro; individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 2A94E967-60C7-54CD-8508-3BC7E7654C0A; Taxon: genus: Nylanderia; specificEpithet: fulva; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: (Mayr, 1862); 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 43.1S 43 17 29.5W; verbatimLatitude: 22 56 43.1S; verbatimLongitude: 43 17 29.5W; verbatimCoordinateSystem: degrees minutes seconds; verbatimSRS: WGS 84; Identification: identificationID: Nylanderia fulva; 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: WAC 119; recordedBy: M. M. Silva, A. J. Mayhé Nunes, J. C. Santos, I. R. S. Cordeiro; individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 51021DAA-0C74-55BB-9298-91D2FA81D215; Taxon: genus: Nylanderia; specificEpithet: fulva; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: (Mayr, 1862); 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 23.1S 43 16 59.0W; verbatimLatitude: 22 57 23.1S; verbatimLongitude: 43 16 59.0W; verbatimCoordinateSystem: degrees minutes seconds; verbatimSRS: WGS 84; Identification: identificationID: Nylanderia fulva; 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
Distribution
Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay. Exotic in northern Brazil, the Canary Islands, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, French Guiana, Galápagos Islands, Guyana, Hispaniola, Jamaica, Lesser Antilles, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, United States and Venezuela. Introduced in Canada and France.
Notes
This is the first record for the PNT. Kempf (1972) and Brandão (1991) recorded this species 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