Iridomyrmex rufoniger incertus

Iridomyrmex rufoniger incertus Forel, 1902 junior synonym of current valid taxon Iridomyrmex pallidus Forel, 1901

Iridomyrmex rufoniger var. incertus Forel, 1902j: 466 (w.) NEW GUINEA (Papua New Guinea). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type locality: Papua New Guinea: Bismarck Archipelago, New Britain I., Ralum (F. Dahl). Primary type depositories: ANIC, MHNG. Type notes: Shattuck, 1994: 111, cites 3 worker syntypes in ANIC.

[First available use of Iridomyrmex rufoniger pallidus incertus Forel, 1901c; unavailable (infrasubspecific) name.]
As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Forel, 1907h: 20; Emery, 1911g: 254; Viehmeyer, 1912b: 22; Emery, 1913a: 26; Karavaiev, 1926d: 437; Wheeler, 1935g: 36.
Subspecies of Iridomyrmex rufoniger: Taylor & Brown, 1985: 102; Taylor, 1987a: 33; Shattuck, 1994: 111; Bolton, 1995b: 218.
Junior synonym of Iridomyrmex pallidus: Heterick & Shattuck, 2011: 120

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Emery, C. 1911g. Formicidae. Résultats de l'expédition scientifique néerlandaise à la Nouvelle-Guinée en 1907 et 1909 sous les auspices de Dr. H. A. Lorentz. Nova Guinea 9:249-259. PDF
Emery, C. 1913a ("1912"). Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Dolichoderinae. Genera Insectorum 137:1-50. PDF
Forel, A. 1902j. Fourmis nouvelles d'Australie. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 10:405-548. PDF
Forel, A. 1907h. Formiciden aus dem Naturhistorischen Museum in Hamburg. II. Teil. Neueingänge seit 1900. Mitteilungen aus dem Naturhistorischen Museum in Hamburg 24:1-20. PDF
Heterick, B. E.; Shattuck, S. 2011. Revision of the ant genus Iridomyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 2845:1-174. PDF
Karavaiev, V. 1926d. Ameisen aus dem Indo-Australischen Gebiet. Treubia 8:413-445. 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.
Viehmeyer, H. 1912b. Ameisen aus Deutsch Neuguinea gesammelt von Dr. O. Schlaginhaufen. Nebst einem Verzeichnisse der papuanischen Arten. Abhandlungen und Berichte des Königlichen Zoologischen und Anthropologische-Ethnographischen Museums zu Dresden 14:1-26. 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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