• Lectotype designation: Heterick & Shattuck, 2011: 153.
• Subspecies of Iridomyrmex rufoniger: Forel, 1907d: 27; Emery, 1913a: 26; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 103; Taylor, 1987a: 33; Shattuck, 1994: 112; Bolton, 1995b: 219.
• Status as species: Heterick & Shattuck, 2011: 153 (redescription).
• Senior synonym of Iridomyrmex emeryi: Heterick & Shattuck, 2011: 153.
• Senior synonym of Iridomyrmex mattiroloi parcens: Heterick & Shattuck, 2011: 153.

Junior synonyms

• Iridomyrmex emeryi Crawley, 1918
• Iridomyrmex mattiroloi parcens Forel, 1907

Obsolete combinations

• Iridomyrmex rufoniger victorianus

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
• Forel, A. 1907d. Formicides du Musée National Hongrois. Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici 5:1-42. 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.