Iridomyrmex albitarsus

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Iridomyrmex albitarsus Wheeler, 1927 junior synonym of current valid taxon Iridomyrmex calvus Emery, 1914

Iridomyrmex albitarsus Wheeler, 1927i: 147, fig. 9 (w.q.m.) AUSTRALIA (Norfolk I.). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers, syntype queens, syntype males (numbers not stated). Primary type locality: Australia: Norfolk I., 1915 (A.M. Lea). Primary type depositories: MCZC, MVMA, USNM. Type notes: Shattuck, 1994: 99, cites 27 worker, 2 queen, 9 male syntypes (22w, 2q, 8m MCZC, 2w, 1m MVMA, 3w USNM).

Status as species: Wheeler, 1935g: 34; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 96; Taylor, 1987a: 30; Shattuck, 1993b: 1307 (redescription); Shattuck, 1994: 99; Bolton, 1995b: 217.
Junior synonym of Iridomyrmex calvus: Heterick & Shattuck, 2011: 55

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Heterick, B. E.; Shattuck, S. 2011. Revision of the ant genus Iridomyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 2845:1-174. PDF
Shattuck, S. O. 1993b. Revision of the Iridomyrmex calvus species-group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 7:1303-1325. PDF
Shattuck, S. O. 1994. Taxonomic catalog of the ant subfamilies Aneuretinae and Dolichoderinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). University of California Publications in Entomology 112:i-xix, 1-241. PDF
Taylor, R. W. 1987a. A checklist of the ants of Australia, New Caledonia and New Zealand (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization) Division of Entomology Report 41:1-92. PDF
Taylor, R. W.; Brown, D. R. 1985. Formicoidea. Zoological Catalogue of Australia 2:1-149, 306-348.
Wheeler, W. M. 1927i. The ants of Lord Howe Island and Norfolk Island. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 62:121-153. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1935g. Check list of the ants of Oceania. Occasional Papers of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum 11(11):1-56.

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