• Iridomyrmex in Formicinae: Mayr, 1862: 653 (in key) [Formicidae]; Mayr, 1865: 10 [Formicidae].
• Iridomyrmex in Dolichoderinae: Forel, 1878c: 381 [Dolichoderidae]; Dalla Torre, 1893: 168 [Dolichoderinae]; Emery, 1895l: 771; Emery, 1896e: 187 [Dolichoderinae]; Forel, 1899b: 102; Wheeler, 1910a: 142.
• Iridomyrmex in Dolichoderidae: Ashmead, 1905c: 384.
• Iridomyrmex in Dolichoderinae, Tapinomini: Emery, 1913a: 21; Wheeler, 1915i: 86; Arnold, 1915: 145; Forel, 1917: 248; Wheeler, 1922: 689; Carpenter, 1930: 50; subsequent authors; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 17; Brandão, 1991: 348; Jaffe, 1993: 9.
• Iridomyrmex in Dolichoderinae, Dolichoderini: Shattuck, 1992c: 101; Shattuck, 1994: 99; Bolton, 1994: 26; Bolton, 1995b: 32; Bolton, 2003: 19, 88.
• Iridomyrmex in Dolichoderinae, Iridomyrmecini, Iridomyrmecina: Dubovikoff, 2005a: 92.
• Iridomyrmex in Dolichoderinae, Leptomyrmecini: Ward et al., 2010: 362.
• Iridomyrmex as genus: all authors.

Obsolete classifications

• Hypoclinea (Iridomyrmex)

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