Iridomyrmex mjobergi

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Iridomyrmex mjobergi Forel, 1915 valid

Iridomyrmex mjobergi Forel, 1915b: 77 (w.) AUSTRALIA (Western Australia). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: lectotype worker (by designation of Heterick & Shattuck, 2011: 108). Primary type locality: lectotype Australia: Western Australia, Kimberley Dist. (E. Mjöberg). Primary type depository: MHNG. Secondary type information: Secondary type material: 7 paralectotype workers. Secondary type locality: same as for lectotype. Secondary type depositories: MHNG, NHMB (perhaps also NHRS). Type notes: Material from Queensland, Cedar Creek, and Malanda (E. Mjöberg), mentioned in the original description but apparently not regarded as syntypes, could not be found by Heterick & Shattuck, 2011: 108.

Lectotype designation: Heterick & Shattuck, 2011: 108.
[Misspelled as mjoiebergi by Baroni Urbani, 1977e: 76.]
Status as species: Taylor & Brown, 1985: 101; Taylor, 1987a: 32; Shattuck, 1994: 108; Bolton, 1995b: 218; Heterick & Shattuck, 2011: 108 (redescription).

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. PDF
Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
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.; 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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