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Iridomyrmex Mayr, 1862 valid masculine

Iridomyrmex Mayr, 1862: 653 (diagnosis in key), 702 Type-species: Formica detecta (junior synonym of Iridomyrmex purpureus), by subsequent designation of Bingham, 1903: 297.

Iridomyrmex in Formicinae: Mayr, 1862: 653 (in key) [Formicidae]; Mayr, 1865: 10 [Formicidae].
Iridomyrmex in Dolichoderinae: Forel, 1878c: 381 [Dolichoderidae]; Dalla Torre, 1893: 168; Emery, 1895l: 771; Forel, 1899f: 102; Wheeler, 1910a: 142.
Iridomyrmex in Dolichoderidae: Ashmead, 1905c: 384.
Iridomyrmex in Dolichoderinae, Tapinomini: Emery, 1913a: 21; Wheeler, 1915i: 86; Arnold, 1915: 145; Forel, 1917: 248; Wheeler, 1922: 689; Carpenter, 1930: 50; all subsequent authors; Jaffe, 1993: 9 (anachronism).
Iridomyrmex in Dolichoderinae, Dolichoderini: Shattuck, 1992c: 101; Bolton, 1994: 26; Bolton, 2003: 88.
Iridomyrmex in Dolichoderinae, Iridomyrmecini, Iridomyrmecina: Dubovikoff, 2005a: 92.
Iridomyrmex in Dolichoderinae, Leptomyrmecini: Ward et al., 2010: 362.

Obsolete classifications

Hypoclinea (Iridomyrmex)

Genus Iridomyrmex references

Roger, 1863b: 13 (catalogue); Mayr, 1863a: 424 (catalogue); Mayr, 1865: 10 (diagnosis); Mayr, 1867a: 76 (diagnosis); Forel, 1878c: 381 (diagnosis); Cresson, 1887: 257 (U.S.A. catalogue); Dalla Torre, 1893: 168 (catalogue); Forel, 1895f: 467 (India & Sri Lanka species key); Bingham, 1903: 298 (India, Sri Lanka & Burma species key); Emery, 1913a: 21 (diagnosis, catalogue); Arnold, 1915: 145 (diagnosis); Creighton, 1950a: 341 (North America species key); Chapman & Capco, 1951: 188 (Asia checklist); Bernard, 1967a: 250 (diagnosis); Kempf, 1972b: 124 (Neotropical catalogue); Smith, 1979: 1417 (North America catalogue); Taylor & Brown, 1985: 96 (Australia catalogue); Taylor, 1987a: 30 (Australia, New Caledonia & New Zealand checklist); Shattuck, 1992a: 14 (diagnosis); Shattuck, 1992c: 101 (diagnosis, review of genus); Shattuck, 1993a: 118 (Iridomyrmex purpureus group, key); Shattuck, 1993b: 1306 (Iridomyrmex calvus group, key); Shattuck, 1994: 99 (catalogue); Bolton, 1995a: 1050 (census); Bolton, 1995b: 217 (catalogue); Shattuck, 1996a: 37 (Iridomyrmex discors group); Shattuck & McMillan, 1998: 303 (Iridomyrmex conifer group, key); Shattuck, 1999: 72 (Australia synopsis); Heterick, 2009: 48 (south-western Australia species key); Heterick & Shattuck, 2011: 22 (diagnosis, all species revision, key); Cantone, 2017: 118 (brief male diagnosis)

Citations

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Ashmead, W. H. 1905c. A skeleton of a new arrangement of the families, subfamilies, tribes and genera of the ants, or the superfamily Formicoidea. Canadian Entomologist 37:381-384. PDF
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Bingham, C. T. 1903. The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Hymenoptera, Vol. II. Ants and Cuckoo-wasps. London: Taylor and Francis, 506 pp. PDF
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Bolton, B. 1994. Identification guide to the ant genera of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 222 pp.
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Bolton, B. 1995a. A taxonomic and zoogeographical census of the extant ant taxa (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of Natural History 29:1037-1056. PDF
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Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
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Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and classification of Formicidae. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 71:1-370. PDF
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Cantone, S. 2017. Winged ants – The male. Dichotomous key to genera of winged male ants in the world. Behavioral ecology of mating flight. São Paulo: Autopubblicato, 318 pp. PDF
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Carpenter, F. M. 1930. The fossil ants of North America. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 70:1-66. PDF
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Chapman, J. W.; Capco, S. R. 1951. Check list of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Asia. Monographs of the Institute of Science and Technology. Manila 1:1-327. PDF
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Creighton, W. S. 1950a. The ants of North America. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 104:1-585. PDF
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Cresson, E. T. Sr. 1887. Synopsis of the families and genera of the Hymenoptera of America, north of Mexico, together with a catalogue of the described species, and bibliography. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, Suppl. Vol. 1887:1-351. PDF
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Dalla Torre, K. W. 1893. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp. PDF
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Dubovikoff, D. A. 2005. The system of taxon Bothriomyrmex Emery, 1869 sensu lato (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) and relatives genera. [In Russian.]. Kavkazskii Entomologicheskii Byulleten 1:89-94. PDF
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Emery, C. 1895l. Die Gattung Dorylus Fab. und die systematische Eintheilung der Formiciden. Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Tiere 8:685-778. PDF
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Emery, C. 1913a ("1912"). Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Dolichoderinae. Genera Insectorum 137:1-50. PDF
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Forel, A. 1895f. Les Formicides de l'Empire des Indes et de Ceylan. Part V. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 9:453-472. PDF
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Forel, A. 1917. Cadre synoptique actuel de la faune universelle des fourmis. Bulletin de la Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles 51:229-253. PDF
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Heterick, B. E. 2009. A guide to the ants of south-western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement 76:1-206. PDF
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Shattuck, S. O. 1992c. Generic revision of the ant subfamily Dolichoderinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Sociobiology 21:1-181. PDF
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Shattuck, S. O. 1993b. Revision of the Iridomyrmex calvus species-group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 7:1303-1325. PDF
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Shattuck, S. O. 1996a. Revision of the Iridomyrmex discors species-group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Australian Journal of Entomology 35:37-42. PDF
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Shattuck, S. O.; McMillan, P. 1998. Revision of the species of the Iridomyrmex conifer group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with notes on their biology. Australian Journal of Zoology 46:301-315. PDF
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Extant: 79 valid species, 1 valid subspecies

Fossil: 5 valid species

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