Protonym: Formica smithii
Authorship Lowne, 1865a: 276
Forms w.
Bioregion Australasia
Locality AUSTRALIA (New South Wales)
Primary type information Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type locality: Australia: New South Wales, vic. Sydney, ix.-xi.1862 (B.T. Lowne). Primary type depository: BMNH.
Type notes Heterick & Shattuck, 2011: 124, record the BMNH specimens as “material uncertain”.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Formica smithii Species Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Iridomyrmex smithii (Lowne, 1865)
Original combination
Iridomyrmex smithii Species Synonym
junior synonym of current valid taxon Iridomyrmex purpureus (Smith, 1858)