• Lectotype designation: Heterick & Shattuck, 2011: 120.
• Forel, 1902j: 466 (q.)
• Subspecies of Iridomyrmex rufoniger: Dahl, 1901: 13 (in key); Forel, 1902j: 466; Forel, 1907d: 27; Forel, 1907h: 20; Forel, 1910b: 52; Emery, 1911g: 249; Emery, 1913a: 26; Forel, 1915b: 78; Crawley, 1915a: 135; Karavaiev, 1926d: 437; Wheeler, 1935g: 36; Donisthorpe, 1941h: 59; Donisthorpe, 1948b: 309; Donisthorpe, 1948g: 138; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 191; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 103; Taylor, 1987a: 33; Shattuck, 1994: 111; Bolton, 1995b: 218.
• Status as species: Heterick & Shattuck, 2011: 120 (redescription); Sarnat et al., 2013: 69.
• Senior synonym of Iridomyrmex rufoniger incertus: Heterick & Shattuck, 2011: 120.
• Senior synonym of Iridomyrmex wingi: Heterick & Shattuck, 2011: 120.
• Material of the unavailable name Iridomyrmex rufoniger pallidus pallidior referred here by Heterick & Shattuck, 2011: 120.

Junior synonyms

• Iridomyrmex rufoniger incertus Forel, 1902
• Iridomyrmex wingi Donisthorpe, 1949

Obsolete combinations

• Iridomyrmex rufoniger pallidus

Citations

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