Iridomyrmex detectus castrae

An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World by Barry Bolton

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Iridomyrmex detectus castrae Viehmeyer, 1925 junior synonym of current valid taxon Iridomyrmex purpureus (Smith, 1858)

Iridomyrmex detectus var. castrae Viehmeyer, 1925a: 31 (w.) AUSTRALIA (New South Wales). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type locality: Australia: Liverpool (H. Overbeck). Primary type depositories: MHNG, MNHU (perhaps also SMTD). Type notes: Shattuck, 1994: 109, cites 1 worker syntype in MHNG.

Subspecies of Iridomyrmex purpureus: Taylor & Brown, 1985: 102; Taylor, 1987a: 33.
Junior synonym of Iridomyrmex purpureus: Shattuck, 1993a: 128; Shattuck, 1994: 109; Bolton, 1995b: 217; Heterick & Shattuck, 2011: 124.

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Heterick, B. E.; Shattuck, S. 2011. Revision of the ant genus Iridomyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 2845:1-174. PDF
Shattuck, S. O. 1993a. Revision of the Iridomyrmex purpureus species-group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 7:113-149. 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.
Viehmeyer, H. 1925a. Formiciden der australischen Faunenregion. (Fortsetzung.). Entomologische Mitteilungen. Berlin-Dahlem 14:25-39. PDF

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