Anochetus mayri Emery, 1884

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-

Anochetus mayri Emery, 1884

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordNumber: WAC 120; recordedBy: M. M. Silva, A. J. Mayhé Nunes, J. C. Santos, I. R. S. Cordeiro; individualCount: 4; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 2FF51B11-A98D-53B8-A532-DB1F6DD08229; Taxon: genus: Anochetus ; specificEpithet: mayri ; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: Emery, 1884; 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 43.3S 43 17 28.9W; verbatimLatitude: 22 56 43.3S; verbatimLongitude: 43 17 28.9W; verbatimCoordinateSystem: degrees minutes seconds; verbatimSRS: WGS 84; Identification: identificationID: Anochetus mayri ; 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 102; recordedBy: M. M. Silva, A. J. Mayhé Nunes, J. C. Santos, I. R. S. Cordeiro; individualCount: 9; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: A1F78F9B-C980-54DD-8D3D-B0D67E8CBE54; Taxon: genus: Anochetus ; specificEpithet: mayri ; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: Emery, 1884; 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 24.0S 43 16 59.9W; verbatimLatitude: 22 57 24.0S; verbatimLongitude: 43 16 59.9W; verbatimCoordinateSystem: degrees minutes seconds; verbatimSRS: WGS 84; Identification: identificationID: Anochetus mayri ; 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

Distribution

Argentina, Bahamas, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Hispaniola, Honduras, Jamaica, Lesser Antilles, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, Venezuela. Exotic in southeast United States. Introduced to the United Kingdom and Denmark.

Notes

This is the first record for Floresta da Tijuca sector. Previously recorded by Vargas et al. (2013) and Santos et al. (2019) from the Serra da Carioca sector.