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An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World
by Barry Bolton
Catalog
›
Formicidae
›
Dolichoderinae
›
Leptomyrmecini
›
Iridomyrmex
›
Iridomyrmex obscurior
Iridomyrmex
obscurior
Forel, 1902
valid
Iridomyrmex discors var. obscurior
Forel, 1902j
: 465 (w.) AUSTRALIA (Victoria). Australasia.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type locality: Australia: Victoria, Ballarat (
W.W. Froggatt
). Primary type depositories:
ANIC
,
MHNG
.
Type notes:
Shattuck, 1994
: 103, cites 5 worker syntypes (1
ANIC
, 4
MHNG
).
Subspecies of
Iridomyrmex discors
:
Emery, 1913a
: 24;
Taylor & Brown, 1985
: 98;
Taylor, 1987a
: 31;
Shattuck, 1994
: 103;
Bolton, 1995b
: 218.
Status as species:
Shattuck, 1996a
: 42 (redescription);
Heterick & Shattuck, 2011
: 115 (redescription).
Obsolete combinations
Iridomyrmex discors obscurior
Citations
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.
1902j.
Fourmis nouvelles d'Australie.
Revue Suisse de Zoologie 10:405-548.
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
Shattuck, S. O.
1996a.
Revision of the
Iridomyrmex discors
species-group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae).
Australian Journal of Entomology 35:37-42.
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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