• Status as species: Taylor & Brown, 1985: 103; Taylor, 1987a: 33; Shattuck, 1993b: 1323 (redescription); Shattuck, 1994: 113; Bolton, 1995b: 219; Heterick & Shattuck, 2011: 156 (redescription).
• Senior synonym of Iridomyrmex mimulus: Heterick & Shattuck, 2011: 156

Junior synonyms

• Iridomyrmex mimulus Shattuck, 1993

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Clark, J. 1941b. Australian Formicidae. Notes and new species. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria 12:71-94. PDF
• Heterick, B. E.; Shattuck, S. 2011. Revision of the ant genus Iridomyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 2845:1-174. PDF
• Shattuck, S. O. 1993b. Revision of the Iridomyrmex calvus species-group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 7:1303-1325. 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.