Cyphomyrmex minutus Mayr, 1862

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-

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.12.e132248

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15017084

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/235412BD-7464-5A71-946C-530A6096C689

treatment provided by

Biodiversity Data Journal by Pensoft

scientific name

Cyphomyrmex minutus Mayr, 1862
status

 

Cyphomyrmex minutus Mayr, 1862 View in CoL

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordNumber: WAS 101; recordedBy: M. M. Silva, A. J. Mayhé Nunes, J. C. Santos, I. R. S. Cordeiro; individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 6F3E224A-F062-5823-8DD0-29B41338C71D; Taxon: genus: Cyphomyrmex ; specificEpithet: minutus ; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: Mayr, 1862; 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 47.5S 43 17 31.2W; verbatimLatitude: 22 56 47.5S; verbatimLongitude: 43 17 31.2W; verbatimCoordinateSystem: degrees minutes seconds; verbatimSRS: WGS 84; Identification: identificationID: Cyphomyrmex minutus ; identifiedBy: M. M. Silva; Event: samplingProtocol: Winckler; year: 2021; month: 7; day: 19-21; verbatimEventDate: Winter 2021; habitat: Atlantic Forest; Record Level: type: PhysicalObject; institutionCode: CEIOC; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen GoogleMaps

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordNumber: WBS 105; recordedBy: M. M. Silva, A. J. Mayhé Nunes, J. C. Santos, I. R. S. Cordeiro; individualCount: 2; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: F1F80378-A91E-5316-97B0-A88B2E1334B3; Taxon: genus: Cyphomyrmex ; specificEpithet: minutus ; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: Mayr, 1862; 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 23.8S 43 16 57.7W; verbatimLatitude: 22 57 23.8S; verbatimLongitude: 43 16 57.7W; verbatimCoordinateSystem: degrees minutes seconds; verbatimSRS: WGS 84; Identification: identificationID: Cyphomyrmex minutus ; 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 GoogleMaps

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordNumber: WCS 101; recordedBy: M. M. Silva, A. J. Mayhé Nunes, J. C. Santos, I. R. S. Cordeiro; individualCount: 4; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 748FF94B-9E05-56F7-89C0-C070E256356F; Taxon: genus: Cyphomyrmex ; specificEpithet: minutus ; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: Mayr, 1862; 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 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: Cyphomyrmex minutus ; 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 GoogleMaps

Distribution

Argentina, Bahamas, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Hispaniola, Honduras, Jamaica, Lesser Antilles, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, United States, Venezuela.

Notes

This is the first record for the Floresta da Tijuca sector. Previously recorded by Vargas et al. (2013) from the Reserva Florestal da Vista Chinesa, within the Serra da Carioca sector.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

SubFamily

Myrmicinae

Genus

Cyphomyrmex