Protonym: Formica rufonigra
Authorship Lowne, 1865a: 279
Forms w.
Bioregion Australasia
Locality AUSTRALIA (New South Wales)
Primary type information Primary type material: neotype worker (by designation of Heterick & Shattuck, 2011: 133). Primary type locality: neotype Australia: New South Wales, Camden Haven, 18.xi.1985 (D.S. Horning). Primary type depository: ANIC.
Type notes 1) Original type data: syntype workers (number not stated), Australia: New South Wales, nr Sydney, ix.-xi.1862 (B.T. Lowne), BMNH (?). 2) Shattuck, 1994: 110, cites 4 worker syntypes in BMNH, but Heterick & Shattuck, 2011: 135, discount this and say the original material is believed lost. 3) Other material from the same series as the neotype is in ANIC, BMNH, MCZC.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Formica rufonigra Species Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Iridomyrmex rufoniger (Lowne, 1865)
Original combination
Iridomyrmex rufoniger Species Valid