Octostruma rugifera
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
Octostruma
Octostruma rugifera

description: Octostruma rugifera (Mayr, 1887)
Materials
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordNumber: WAS 113; recordedBy: M. M. Silva, A. J. Mayhé Nunes, J. C. Santos, I. R. S. Cordeiro; individualCount: 4; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 98B9AAA0-2B7E-5626-BDA4-142B65DC5354; Taxon: genus: Octostruma; specificEpithet: rugifera; 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 48.5S 43 17 35.3W; verbatimLatitude: 22 56 48.5S; verbatimLongitude: 43 17 35.3W; verbatimCoordinateSystem: degrees minutes seconds; verbatimSRS: WGS 84; Identification: identificationID: Octostruma rugifera; 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 102; recordedBy: M. M. Silva, A. J. Mayhé Nunes, J. C. Santos, I. R. S. Cordeiro; individualCount: 8; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 3BEF370A-42F7-5089-A38E-A2CEBF60F832; Taxon: genus: Octostruma; specificEpithet: rugifera; 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 24.0S 43 16 59.9W; verbatimLatitude: 22 57 24.0S; verbatimLongitude: 43 16 59.9W; verbatimCoordinateSystem: degrees minutes seconds; verbatimSRS: WGS 84; Identification: identificationID: Octostruma rugifera; 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: PCS 106; recordedBy: M. M. Silva, A. J. Mayhé Nunes, J. C. Santos, I. R. S. Cordeiro; individualCount: 13; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 9F148668-130E-5FBE-A669-EAA2AE1FEBB9; Taxon: genus: Octostruma; specificEpithet: rugifera; 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 42.4S 43 17 24.5W; verbatimLatitude: 22 57 42.4S; verbatimLongitude: 43 17 24.5W; verbatimCoordinateSystem: degrees minutes seconds; verbatimSRS: WGS 84; Identification: identificationID: Octostruma rugifera; 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, Brazil, Colombia, Panama, Paraguay, San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina, Venezuela.
Notes
Brown and Kempf (1960) recorded this species 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