Linepithema angulatum (Emery, 1894)

Linepithema angulatum (Emery, 1894) View in CoL

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordNumber: WBS 115; recordedBy: M. M. Silva, A. J. Mayhé Nunes, J. C. Santos, I. R. S. Cordeiro; individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: D8D83C19-C430-52CB-BE21-8C1C34548598; Taxon: genus: Linepithema ; specificEpithet: angulatum ; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: (Emery, 1894); 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 29.3S 43 16 58.1W; verbatimLatitude: 22 57 29.3S; verbatimLongitude: 43 16 58.1W; verbatimCoordinateSystem: degrees minutes seconds; verbatimSRS: WGS 84; Identification: identificationID: Linepithema angulatum ; 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

Distribution

Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Panama, Peru, Venezuela. Introduced to northern Europe.

Notes

This is the first record for PNT. Previously recorded from Atlantic Forest fragments in the State of Rio de Janeiro by Gomes et al. (2013).