Iridomyrmex calvus

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Iridomyrmex calvus Emery, 1914 valid

Iridomyrmex calvus Emery, 1914f: 419, pl. 13, fig. 12 (w.q.) NEW CALEDONIA. Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: lectotype worker (by designation of Shattuck, 1993b: 1313). Primary type locality: lectotype New Caledonia: Prony (F. Sarasin & J. Roux). Primary type depository: MSNG. Secondary type information: Secondary type material: 33 paralectotype workers, 2 paralectotype queens. Secondary type localities: 16 paralectotype workers with same data as lectotype, 1 paralectotype queen New Caledonia: Tao (F. Sarasin & J. Roux), 3 paralectotype workers New Caledonia: Canala (F. Sarasin & J. Roux), 14 paralectotype workers, 1 paralectotype queen New Caledonia: Oubatche (F. Sarasin & J. Roux). Secondary type depositories: MHNG, MSNG, NHMB.

Lectotype designation: Shattuck, 1993b: 1313.
Status as species: Wheeler, 1935g: 35; Taylor, 1987a: 33; Shattuck, 1993b: 1313 (redescription); Shattuck, 1994: 102; Bolton, 1995b: 217; Heterick & Shattuck, 2011: 55 (redescription).
Senior synonym of Iridomyrmex albitarsus: Heterick & Shattuck, 2011: 55.
Senior synonym of Iridomyrmex notialis: Heterick & Shattuck, 2011: 55.

Junior synonyms

Iridomyrmex albitarsus Wheeler, 1927
Iridomyrmex notialis Shattuck, 1993

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Emery, C. 1914f. Les fourmis de la Nouvelle-Calédonie et des îles Loyalty. Nova Caledonia. A. Zoologie 1:393-437. 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
Wheeler, W. M. 1935g. Check list of the ants of Oceania. Occasional Papers of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum 11(11):1-56.

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