Cardiocondyla minutior Forel, 1899

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-

Cardiocondyla minutior Forel, 1899

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordNumber: WAC 103; recordedBy: M. M. Silva, A. J. Mayhé Nunes, J. C. Santos, I. R. S. Cordeiro; individualCount: 2; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: C4D3254B-1CF7-5634-8B6E-786C6715E91E; Taxon: genus: Cardiocondyla ; specificEpithet: minutior ; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: Forel, 1899; 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 48.3S 43 17 32.2W; verbatimLatitude: 22 56 48.3S; verbatimLongitude: 43 17 32.2W; verbatimCoordinateSystem: degrees minutes seconds; verbatimSRS: WGS 84; Identification: identificationID: Cardiocondyla minutior ; identifiedBy: M. M. Silva; Event: samplingProtocol: Winckler; year: 2021; month: 1; day: 17-19; verbatimEventDate: Summer 2022; habitat: Atlantic Forest; Record Level: type: PhysicalObject; institutionCode: CEIOC; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Native status

Exotic ( Brazil)

Distribution

Native in the Oriental Region (Andaman and Nicobar Islands, continental India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Vietnam). Exotic in the Australian, Madagascan, Nearctic, Neotropical, Oceanian, Panamanian, Saharo-Arabian and Sino-Japanese Regions, including Brazil.

Notes

This is the first record for the State of Rio de Janeiro, filling a gap between Minas Gerais and Espírito Santo to the north and Santa Catarina to the south.