Iridomyrmex discors

Iridomyrmex discors Forel, 1902 valid

Iridomyrmex discors Forel, 1902j: 464 (w.) AUSTRALIA (Queensland). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: lectotype worker (by designation of Heterick & Shattuck, 2011: 75). Primary type locality: lectotype Australia: Queensland, Charters Towers (Wiederkehr). Primary type depository: MHNG. Secondary type information: Secondary type material: 7 paralectotype workers. Secondary type locality: same as for lectotype. Secondary type depositories: ANIC, MCZC, MHNG, NHMB. Type notes: 1) Baroni Urbani, 1977e: 75, cites 1 worker syntype in NHMB. 2) Shattuck, 1994: 103, and Shattuck, 1996a: 39, cite 8 worker syntypes (1 ANIC, 1 MCZC, 5 MHNG, 1 NHMB). 3) The ANIC specimen is not mentioned in Heterick & Shattuck, 2011: 75.

Lectotype designation: Heterick & Shattuck, 2011: 75.
Status as species: Emery, 1913a: 24; Forel, 1913h: 189; Forel, 1915b: 80; Wheeler, 1915h: 811; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 98; Taylor, 1987a: 31; Shattuck, 1994: 103; Bolton, 1995b: 217; Shattuck, 1996a: 39 (redescription); Heterick, 2009: 51; Heterick & Shattuck, 2011: 75 (redescription).
Senior synonym of Iridomyrmex discors aeneogaster: Shattuck, 1996a: 39; Heterick & Shattuck, 2011: 75.
Senior synonym of Iridomyrmex discors occipitalis: Shattuck, 1996a: 39; Heterick & Shattuck, 2011: 75.
Material of the unavailable name Iridomyrmex discors occipitalis exilior referred here by Taylor, 1986: 34; Shattuck, 1996a: 39.

Junior synonyms

Iridomyrmex discors aeneogaster Wheeler, 1915
Iridomyrmex discors occipitalis Forel, 1907

Citations

Baroni Urbani, C. 1977e. Katalog der Typen von Formicidae (Hymenoptera) der Sammlung des Naturhistorischen Museums Basel (2. Teil). Mitteilungen der Entomologischen Gesellschaft Basel (n.s.)27:61-102. PDF
Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Emery, C. 1913a ("1912"). Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Dolichoderinae. Genera Insectorum 137:1-50. PDF
Forel, A. 1902j. Fourmis nouvelles d'Australie. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 10:405-548. PDF
Forel, A. 1913h. Fourmis de Tasmanie et d'Australie récoltées par MM. Lae, Froggatt etc. Bulletin de la Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles 49:173-195. PDF
Forel, A. 1915b. Results of Dr. E. Mjöbergs Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia 1910-13. 2. Ameisen. Arkiv för Zoologi 9(16):1-119. PDF
Heterick, B. E. 2009. A guide to the ants of south-western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement 76:1-206. PDF
Heterick, B. E.; Shattuck, S. 2011. Revision of the ant genus Iridomyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 2845:1-174. 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
Shattuck, S. O. 1996a. Revision of the Iridomyrmex discors species-group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Australian Journal of Entomology 35:37-42. PDF
Taylor, R. W. 1986. The quadrinominal infrasubspecific names of Australian ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). General and Applied Entomology 18:33-37. 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.
Wheeler, W. M. 1915h. Hymenoptera. [In "Scientific notes on an expedition into the north-western regions of South Australia".]. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 39:805-823. PDF

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