Camponotus atriceps
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
Camponotus
Camponotus atriceps

description: Camponotus atriceps (Smith, F., 1858)
Materials
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordNumber: PAC 115; recordedBy: M. M. Silva, A. J. Mayhé Nunes, J. C. Santos, I. R. S. Cordeiro; individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 4EEE1996-CF14-5860-BCBB-E9209390FDC4; Taxon: genus: Camponotus; specificEpithet: atriceps; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: (Smith, F., 1858); 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 49.5S 43 17 29.8W; verbatimLatitude: 22 56 49.5S; verbatimLongitude: 43 17 29.8W; verbatimCoordinateSystem: degrees minutes seconds; verbatimSRS: WGS 84; Identification: identificationID: Camponotus atriceps; identifiedBy: M. M. Silva; Event: samplingProtocol: Pitfall; 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: PBC 116; recordedBy: M. M. Silva, A. J. Mayhé Nunes, J. C. Santos, I. R. S. Cordeiro; individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: E0B31290-09D7-5CEB-861B-4C32578B1B80; Taxon: genus: Camponotus; specificEpithet: atriceps; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: (Smith, F., 1858); 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 24.6S 43 17 02.0W; verbatimLatitude: 22 57 24.6S; verbatimLongitude: 43 17 02.0W; verbatimCoordinateSystem: degrees minutes seconds; verbatimSRS: WGS 84; Identification: identificationID: Camponotus atriceps; identifiedBy: M. M. Silva; Event: samplingProtocol: Pitfall; year: 2021; month: 1; day: 17-21; verbatimEventDate: Summer 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: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 2A87E737-0C87-5F75-AF9A-301C4CEB1927; Taxon: genus: Camponotus; specificEpithet: atriceps; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: (Smith, F., 1858); 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 42.5S 43 17 23.8W; verbatimLatitude: 22 57 42.5S; verbatimLongitude: 43 17 23.8W; verbatimCoordinateSystem: degrees minutes seconds; verbatimSRS: WGS 84; Identification: identificationID: Camponotus atriceps; identifiedBy: M. M. Silva; Event: samplingProtocol: Pitfall; year: 2021; month: 7; day: 23-25; 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, Lesser Antilles, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela. Introduced to Hawaii, the Netherlands, United Kingdom and Italy. The record from Cuba needs verification, whereas that from Hispaniola is dubious.
Notes
This is the first record for the Floresta da Tijuca sector. This species was recorded by Santos et al. (2019) from the Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden and the Parque Lage (a urban park), both in 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