Iridomyrmex innocens

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Iridomyrmex innocens Forel, 1907 valid

Iridomyrmex innocens Forel, 1907j: 292 (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. 77, Yalgoo, 1905 (W. Michaelsen & R. Hartmeyer), Western Australia, Stat. 99, Lion Mill, 1905 (W. Michaelsen & R. Hartmeyer), Western Australia, Stat. 102, Midland, 1905 (W. Michaelsen & R. Hartmeyer), Western Australia, Stat. 135, Yarloop, 1905 (W. Michaelsen & R. Hartmeyer). Primary type depositories: MHNG, WAMP. Type notes: 1) Shattuck, 1994: 106, cites 8 worker, 7 queen, 25 male syntypes from Lion Hill and Yarloop (4w, 3q, 12m MHNG, 1w, 1q, 1m WAMP). 2) Baroni Urbani, 1977e: 76, Shattuck, 1994: 106, and Heterick & Shattuck, 2011: 92, also cite syntypes from New South Wales, a locality not mentioned in the original description.

Status as species: Emery, 1913a: 25; Forel, 1915b: 81; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 100; Taylor, 1987a: 32; Shattuck, 1994: 106; Bolton, 1995b: 218; Heterick, 2009: 50; Heterick & Shattuck, 2011: 92 (redescription).
Senior synonym of Iridomyrmex argutus: Heterick, 2009: 56 (in text); Heterick & Shattuck, 2011: 92.
Senior synonym of Iridomyrmex occiduus: Heterick, 2009: 56 (in text); Heterick & Shattuck, 2011: 92.

Junior synonyms

Iridomyrmex argutus Shattuck, 1993
Iridomyrmex occiduus Shattuck, 1993

Citations

Baroni Urbani, C. 1977e. Katalog der Typen von Formicidae (Hymenoptera) der Sammlung des Naturhistorischen Museums Basel (2. Teil). Mitteilungen der Entomologischen Gesellschaft Basel (n.s.)27:61-102.
Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
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
Forel, A. 1915b. Results of Dr. E. Mjöbergs Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia 1910-13. 2. Ameisen. Arkiv för Zoologi 9(16):1-119. 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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