Genus Iridomyrmex (Subfamily Dolichoderinae) - Online Catalog of Ants of North America

Genus Iridomyrmex (Dolichoderinae)

Iridomyrmex Mayr, G. 1862: 702. Type species: Formica detecta Smith, by subsequent designation of Bingham, 1903: 297. The type species, Formica detecta Smith, is a junior synonym of Iridomyrmex purpureus Smith.

ZOOGEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS. Indo-Australian, Australasian.
TRIBE. Dolichoderini.
TAXONOMY. Shattuck, 1992a: 14.— Shattuck, 1992c: 101.— Shattuck, 1993a: 113 (key to species, purpureus group) .— Shattuck, 1993b: 1203 (key to species calvus group) .— Shattuck, 1994: 99.

Genus Iridomyrmex
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