Iridomyrmex continentis

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Iridomyrmex continentis Forel, 1907 valid

Iridomyrmex mattiroloi var. continentis Forel, 1907j: 290 (w.q.m.) AUSTRALIA (Western Australia). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers, syntype queens, syntype males (numbers not stated). Primary type localities: Australia: Western Australia, Stat. 65, Denham, 1905 (W. Michaelsen & R. Hartmeyer), Western Australia, Stat. 93, Kalgoorlie, 1905 (W. Michaelsen & R. Hartmeyer). Primary type depositories: MHNG, WAMP. Type notes: Shattuck, 1994: 107, cites 3 worker, 1 queen syntypes from Kalgoorlie (2w, 1q MHNG, 1w WAMP).

Subspecies of Iridomyrmex mattiroloi: Emery, 1913a: 25; Clark, 1938: 373; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 100; Taylor, 1987a: 32; Shattuck, 1994: 106; Bolton, 1995b: 217; Heterick, 2009: 54.
Status as species: Heterick & Shattuck, 2011: 66 (redescription).

Obsolete combinations

Iridomyrmex mattiroloi continentis

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Clark, J. 1938. The Sir Joseph Banks Islands. Reports of the McCoy Society for Field Investigation and Research. Part 10. Formicidae (Hymenoptera). Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria (n.s.)50:356-382.
Emery, C. 1913a ("1912"). Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Dolichoderinae. Genera Insectorum 137:1-50. PDF
Forel, A. 1907j. Formicidae. In: Michaelsen, W.; Hartmeyer, R. (eds.) 1907. Die Fauna Südwest-Australiens. Band I, Lieferung 7. Jena: Gustav Fischer, pp. 263-310. PDF
Heterick, B. E. 2009. A guide to the ants of south-western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement 76:1-206. PDF
Heterick, B. E.; Shattuck, S. 2011. Revision of the ant genus Iridomyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 2845:1-174. 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.

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