Holcoponera moelleri Forel 1912
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
Holcoponera
Holcoponera moelleri

description: Holcoponera moelleri Forel, 1912
Materials
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordNumber: PAS 105; recordedBy: M. M. Silva, A. J. Mayhé Nunes, J. C. Santos, I. R. S. Cordeiro; individualCount: 8; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 674B4090-C7F0-5506-AF90-BE16201B4760; Taxon: genus: Holcoponera; specificEpithet: moelleri; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: Forel, 1912; 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 46.0S 43 17 29.1W; verbatimLatitude: 22 56 46.0S; verbatimLongitude: 43 17 29.1W; verbatimCoordinateSystem: degrees minutes seconds; verbatimSRS: WGS 84; Identification: identificationID: Holcoponera moelleri; identifiedBy: M. M. Silva; Event: samplingProtocol: Pitfall; 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: WAS 108; recordedBy: M. M. Silva, A. J. Mayhé Nunes, J. C. Santos, I. R. S. Cordeiro; individualCount: 6; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 943CC490-7448-54C1-B5A4-3FA422DC3DBC; Taxon: genus: Holcoponera; specificEpithet: moelleri; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: Forel, 1912; 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 47.0S 43 17 31.3W; verbatimLatitude: 22 56 47.0S; verbatimLongitude: 43 17 31.3W; verbatimCoordinateSystem: degrees minutes seconds; verbatimSRS: WGS 84; Identification: identificationID: Holcoponera moelleri; 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: PBC 104; recordedBy: M. M. Silva, A. J. Mayhé Nunes, J. C. Santos, I. R. S. Cordeiro; individualCount: 11; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 29D1E83A-EDBE-5619-A401-92C3A95EEF90; Taxon: genus: Holcoponera; specificEpithet: moelleri; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: Forel, 1912; 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 22.7S 43 16 57.9W; verbatimLatitude: 22 57 22.7S; verbatimLongitude: 43 16 57.9W; verbatimCoordinateSystem: degrees minutes seconds; verbatimSRS: WGS 84; Identification: identificationID: Holcoponera moelleri; identifiedBy: M. M. Silva; Event: samplingProtocol: Pitfall; year: 2022; month: 1; day: 17-21; verbatimEventDate: Summer 2022; habitat: Atlantic Forest; Record Level: type: PhysicalObject; institutionCode: CEIOC; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordNumber: WBC 115; recordedBy: M. M. Silva, A. J. Mayhé Nunes, J. C. Santos, I. R. S. Cordeiro; individualCount: 15; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: E99CF9C3-7662-5C28-B017-16CEAB827093; Taxon: genus: Holcoponera; specificEpithet: moelleri; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: Forel, 1912; 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 27.2S 43 16 55.8W; verbatimLatitude: 22 57 27.2S; verbatimLongitude: 43 16 55.8W; verbatimCoordinateSystem: degrees minutes seconds; verbatimSRS: WGS 84; Identification: identificationID: Holcoponera moelleri; identifiedBy: M. M. Silva; Event: samplingProtocol: Winckler; year: 2022; month: 1; day: 17-22; verbatimEventDate: Summer 2022; habitat: Atlantic Forest; Record Level: type: PhysicalObject; institutionCode: CEIOC; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordNumber: PCC 111; recordedBy: M. M. Silva, A. J. Mayhé Nunes, J. C. Santos, I. R. S. Cordeiro; individualCount: 9; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 29BD3AC6-FA84-5D6E-BF45-139102FD746A; Taxon: genus: Holcoponera; specificEpithet: moelleri; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: Forel, 1912; 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 42.8S 43 17 23.5W; verbatimLatitude: 22 57 42.8S; verbatimLongitude: 43 17 23.5W; verbatimCoordinateSystem: degrees minutes seconds; verbatimSRS: WGS 84; Identification: identificationID: Holcoponera moelleri; identifiedBy: M. M. Silva; Event: samplingProtocol: Pitfall; year: 2022; month: 1; day: 21-23; verbatimEventDate: Summer 2022; habitat: Atlantic Forest; Record Level: type: PhysicalObject; institutionCode: CEIOC; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordNumber: WCC 106; recordedBy: M. M. Silva, A. J. Mayhé Nunes, J. C. Santos, I. R. S. Cordeiro; individualCount: 16; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 0199D8B1-3579-5F74-B688-F99E33C97DB9; Taxon: genus: Holcoponera; specificEpithet: moelleri; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: Forel, 1912; 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 42.2S 43 17 23.9W; verbatimLatitude: 22 57 42.2S; verbatimLongitude: 43 17 23.9W; verbatimCoordinateSystem: degrees minutes seconds; verbatimSRS: WGS 84; Identification: identificationID: Holcoponera moelleri; identifiedBy: M. M. Silva; Event: samplingProtocol: Winckler; year: 2022; month: 1; day: 21-23; verbatimEventDate: Summer 2022; habitat: Atlantic Forest; Record Level: type: PhysicalObject; institutionCode: CEIOC; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
Distribution
Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela
Notes
This is the first record for the PNT. Teixeira et al. (2019) recorded this species from another protected area in the State of Rio de Janeiro.
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