Wasmannia affinis Santschi 1929
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
Wasmannia
Wasmannia affinis

description: Wasmannia affinis Santschi, 1929
Materials
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordNumber: WAC 113; recordedBy: M. M. Silva, A. J. Mayhé Nunes, J. C. Santos, I. R. S. Cordeiro; individualCount: 5; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 6DC94746-716F-5348-A943-39C1E8A590C0; Taxon: genus: Wasmannia; specificEpithet: affinis; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: Santschi, 1929; 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 44.6S 43 17 32.1W; verbatimLatitude: 22 56 44.6S; verbatimLongitude: 43 17 32.1W; verbatimCoordinateSystem: degrees minutes seconds; verbatimSRS: WGS 84; Identification: identificationID: Wasmannia affinis; 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 109; recordedBy: M. M. Silva, A. J. Mayhé Nunes, J. C. Santos, I. R. S. Cordeiro; individualCount: 14; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 03469F9D-D075-5D24-B823-C1868FADD45E; Taxon: genus: Wasmannia; specificEpithet: affinis; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: Santschi, 1929; 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 25.3S 43 16 56.2W; verbatimLatitude: 22 57 25.3S; verbatimLongitude: 43 16 56.2W; verbatimCoordinateSystem: degrees minutes seconds; verbatimSRS: WGS 84; Identification: identificationID: Wasmannia affinis; 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 101; recordedBy: M. M. Silva, A. J. Mayhé Nunes, J. C. Santos, I. R. S. Cordeiro; individualCount: 2; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: B6BA0D36-0F76-5117-9F8E-F14B88BC70EF; Taxon: genus: Wasmannia; specificEpithet: affinis; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: Santschi, 1929; 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 42.4S 43 17 23.8W; verbatimLatitude: 22 57 42.4S; verbatimLongitude: 43 17 23.8W; verbatimCoordinateSystem: degrees minutes seconds; verbatimSRS: WGS 84; Identification: identificationID: Wasmannia affinis; 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
Endemic from eastern Brazil.
Notes
This is the first record for PNT. Previously recorded by Lasmar et al. (2020) 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