• [Misspelled as detexta by Kusnezov, 1959: 51.]
• Wheeler & Wheeler, 1974b: 398 (l.); Crozier, 1968b: 25 (k.)
• Combination in Iridomyrmex: Dalla Torre, 1893: 168
• Status as species: Mayr, 1863a: 414; Dalla Torre, 1893: 168; André, 1896d: 260 (in key); Forel, 1907h: 20; Forel, 1907j: 297; Wheeler, 1909a: 27; Stitz, 1911a: 368; Emery, 1913a: 24; Emery, 1914a: 180; Forel, 1915b: 79; Wheeler, 1915h: 811; Viehmeyer, 1925a: 32; Clark, 1929b: 122; Clark, 1938: 373.
• Junior synonym of Iridomyrmex purpureus: Lowne, 1865a: 275; Mayr, 1876: 81; Dalla Torre, 1893: 168; André, 1896d: 260 (in key); Forel, 1902j: 465; Emery, 1913a: 24; Clark, 1938: 373; Greaves, 1971: 15; Greenslade, 1974a: 247; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 102; Taylor, 1987a: 33; Shattuck, 1993a: 128; Shattuck, 1994: 109; Bolton, 1995b: 217; Heterick & Shattuck, 2011: 124.
• [Note: Dalla Torre, 1893: 168; André, 1896d: 260 (in key); Forel, 1902j: 465; Emery, 1913a: 24; Clark, 1938: 373 give Iridomyrmex detectus as senior synonym, but Iridomyrmex purpureus has priority.]

Obsolete combinations

• Formica detecta

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