Cyphomyrmex rimosus
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
Cyphomyrmex
Cyphomyrmex rimosus

description: Cyphomyrmex rimosus (Spinola, 1851)
Materials
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordNumber: PAC 101; recordedBy: M. M. Silva, A. J. Mayhé Nunes, J. C. Santos, I. R. S. Cordeiro; individualCount: 3; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 235A9FCF-95A8-53CF-A9B7-01810A750007; Taxon: genus: Cyphomyrmex; specificEpithet: rimosus; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: (Spinola, 1851); 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 46.3S 43 17 30.3W; verbatimLatitude: 22 56 46.3S; verbatimLongitude: 43 17 30.3W; verbatimCoordinateSystem: degrees minutes seconds; verbatimSRS: WGS 84; Identification: identificationID: Cyphomyrmex rimosus; identifiedBy: M. M. Silva; Event: samplingProtocol: Pitfall; year: 2021; month: 1; day: 17-19; verbatimEventDate: Summer 2021; habitat: Atlantic Forest; Record Level: type: PhysicalObject; institutionCode: CEIOC; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordNumber: WBS 105; recordedBy: M. M. Silva, A. J. Mayhé Nunes, J. C. Santos, I. R. S. Cordeiro; individualCount: 4; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 06DC9D8E-5887-501B-8FB7-F460C3566D27; Taxon: genus: Cyphomyrmex; specificEpithet: rimosus; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: (Spinola, 1851); 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 23.8S 43 16 57.7W; verbatimLatitude: 22 57 23.8S; verbatimLongitude: 43 16 57.7W; verbatimCoordinateSystem: degrees minutes seconds; verbatimSRS: WGS 84; Identification: identificationID: Cyphomyrmex rimosus; 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 102; recordedBy: M. M. Silva, A. J. Mayhé Nunes, J. C. Santos, I. R. S. Cordeiro; individualCount: 11; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: EACE329D-5FD3-5920-B991-82CFB8BB8C18; Taxon: genus: Cyphomyrmex; specificEpithet: rimosus; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: (Spinola, 1851); 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 42.0S 43 17 23.9W; verbatimLatitude: 22 57 42.0S; verbatimLongitude: 43 17 23.9W; verbatimCoordinateSystem: degrees minutes seconds; verbatimSRS: WGS 84; Identification: identificationID: Cyphomyrmex rimosus; 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, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Hispaniola, Honduras, Lesser Antilles, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, Venezuela. Exotic in the Galápagos Islands and southeast and southwest United States. Introduced in Hawaii. Records from the States of Arizona, California and Michigan (United States) are 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, within 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