Wasmannia affinis Santschi, 1929

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, Biodiversity Data Journal 13, pp. e 132248-e 132248 : e132248-

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.