Iridomyrmex exsanguis

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Iridomyrmex exsanguis Forel, 1907 valid

Iridomyrmex exsanguis Forel, 1907j: 296 (w.q.) AUSTRALIA (Western Australia). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers, syntype queens (numbers not stated). Primary type locality: Australia: Western Australia, Stat. 65, Denham, 1905 (W. Michaelsen & R. Hartmeyer). Primary type depository: MHNG. Type notes: Shattuck, 1994: 104, cites 1 queen syntype in MHNG; Heterick & Shattuck, 2011: 80, say that worker syntypes could not be located.

Crawley, 1922e: 26 (m.)
Status as species: Emery, 1913a: 24; Crawley, 1922e: 26; Wheeler, 1934d: 150; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 98; Taylor, 1987a: 31; Shattuck, 1994: 104; Bolton, 1995b: 217; Heterick, 2009: 51; Heterick & Shattuck, 2011: 80 (redescription).

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Crawley, W. C. 1922e. New ants from Australia (concluded from vol. ix. p. 449). Annals and Magazine of Natural History (9)10:16-36.
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.
Wheeler, W. M. 1934d. Contributions to the fauna of Rottnest Island, Western Australia. No. IX. The ants. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 20:137-163. PDF

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