Hypoponera viri
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 viri

description: Hypoponera viri (Santschi, 1923)
Materials
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordNumber: WAS 102; recordedBy: M. M. Silva, A. J. Mayhé Nunes, J. C. Santos, I. R. S. Cordeiro; individualCount: 11; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 767F8FCB-6985-5E6D-B168-425A99053566; Taxon: genus: Hypoponera; specificEpithet: viri; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: (Santschi, 1923); 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 47.5S 43 17 30.6W; verbatimLatitude: 22 56 47.5S; verbatimLongitude: 43 17 30.6W; verbatimCoordinateSystem: degrees minutes seconds; verbatimSRS: WGS 84; Identification: identificationID: Hypoponera viri; 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: WBS 120; recordedBy: M. M. Silva, A. J. Mayhé Nunes, J. C. Santos, I. R. S. Cordeiro; individualCount: 6; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 3EE4491A-8290-5004-BCD3-3B33DE164F27; Taxon: genus: Hypoponera; specificEpithet: viri; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: (Santschi, 1923); 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 30.0S 43 16 58.3W; verbatimLatitude: 22 57 30.0S; verbatimLongitude: 43 16 58.3W; verbatimCoordinateSystem: degrees minutes seconds; verbatimSRS: WGS 84; Identification: identificationID: Hypoponera viri; identifiedBy: M. M. Silva; Event: samplingProtocol: Winckler; year: 2021; month: 1; day: 17-20; verbatimEventDate: Summer 2021; habitat: Atlantic Forest; Record Level: type: PhysicalObject; institutionCode: CEIOC; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordNumber: WBS 117; recordedBy: M. M. Silva, A. J. Mayhé Nunes, J. C. Santos, I. R. S. Cordeiro; individualCount: 6; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: F71A1F37-ED2C-56C0-9215-0E61A9F9C68B; Taxon: genus: Hypoponera; specificEpithet: viri; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: (Santschi, 1923); 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 40.5S 43 17 29.9W; verbatimLatitude: 22 57 40.5S; verbatimLongitude: 43 17 29.9W; verbatimCoordinateSystem: degrees minutes seconds; verbatimSRS: WGS 84; Identification: identificationID: Hypoponera viri; 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
Distribution
Endemic from eastern Brazil.
Notes
This is the first record for the State of Rio de Janeiro, which extends the known distribution northwards.
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