Brachymyrmex australis Forel 1901
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
Brachymyrmex
Brachymyrmex australis

description: Brachymyrmex australis Forel, 1901
Materials
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordNumber: WAC 103; recordedBy: M. M. Silva, A. J. Mayhé Nunes, J. C. Santos, I. R. S. Cordeiro; individualCount: 5; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: C59CC7D8-25BC-5212-81A7-97DF6B7EF23F; Taxon: genus: Brachymyrmex; specificEpithet: australis; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: Forel, 1901; 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 48.3S 43 17 30.2W; verbatimLatitude: 22 56 48.3S; verbatimLongitude: 43 17 30.2W; verbatimCoordinateSystem: degrees minutes seconds; verbatimSRS: WGS 84; Identification: identificationID: Brachymyrmex australis; 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: WBS 113; recordedBy: M. M. Silva, A. J. Mayhé Nunes, J. C. Santos, I. R. S. Cordeiro; individualCount: 4; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 7FF2A111-704D-52B6-AC1D-C697F0EE5823; Taxon: genus: Brachymyrmex; specificEpithet: australis; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: Forel, 1901; 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 27.8S 43 16 57.3W; verbatimLatitude: 22 57 27.8S; verbatimLongitude: 43 16 57.3W; verbatimCoordinateSystem: degrees minutes seconds; verbatimSRS: WGS 84; Identification: identificationID: Brachymyrmex australis; 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 119; recordedBy: M. M. Silva, A. J. Mayhé Nunes, J. C. Santos, I. R. S. Cordeiro; individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: BA46C87A-96B4-55BB-B2E2-B5FFA77FAE41; Taxon: genus: Brachymyrmex; specificEpithet: australis; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: Forel, 1901; 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 39.8S 43 17 30.9W; verbatimLatitude: 22 57 39.8S; verbatimLongitude: 43 17 30.9W; verbatimCoordinateSystem: degrees minutes seconds; verbatimSRS: WGS 84; Identification: identificationID: Brachymyrmex australis; 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, Bahamas, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Hispaniola, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay. Exotic in the Mascarene Islands. Introduced to Germany.
Notes
This is the first record for the PNT. Ortiz-Sepulveda et al. (2019) recorded this species from another protected area in the State of Rio de Janeiro state.
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