Odontomachus chelifer
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
Odontomachus
Odontomachus chelifer

description: Odontomachus chelifer (Latreille, 1802)
Materials
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordNumber: PAC 111; recordedBy: M. M. Silva, A. J. Mayhé Nunes, J. C. Santos, I. R. S. Cordeiro; individualCount: 2; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: CA07126C-95A0-5516-B232-CE6E6D8E1221; Taxon: genus: Odontomachus; specificEpithet: chelifer; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: (Latreille, 1802); 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 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: Odontomachus chelifer; 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: PBS 117; recordedBy: M. M. Silva, A. J. Mayhé Nunes, J. C. Santos, I. R. S. Cordeiro; individualCount: 3; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: AE736F2E-8C7F-55D9-896B-0DAC507C75DD; Taxon: genus: Odontomachus; specificEpithet: chelifer; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: (Latreille, 1802); 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 56 48.2S 43 17 29.8W; verbatimLatitude: 22 56 48.2S; verbatimLongitude: 43 17 29.8W; verbatimCoordinateSystem: degrees minutes seconds; verbatimSRS: WGS 84; Identification: identificationID: Odontomachus chelifer; identifiedBy: M. M. Silva; Event: samplingProtocol: Pitfall; 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 101; recordedBy: M. M. Silva, A. J. Mayhé Nunes, J. C. Santos, I. R. S. Cordeiro; individualCount: 2; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 70F43E70-E844-5BAA-AB6F-3938F90AEA9A; Taxon: genus: Odontomachus; specificEpithet: chelifer; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: (Latreille, 1802); 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 56 47.7S 43 17 33.1W; verbatimLatitude: 22 56 47.7S; verbatimLongitude: 43 17 33.1W; verbatimCoordinateSystem: degrees minutes seconds; verbatimSRS: WGS 84; Identification: identificationID: Odontomachus chelifer; 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, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela.
Notes
This is the first record from the Floresta da Tijuca sector. This species was recorded by Vargas et al. (2013) and Santos et al. (2019) from 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