• [Junior primary homonym of Pseudomyrmex gracilis Fabricius, 1804.]
• Mayr, 1876: 82 (q.m.); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1966: 729 (l.); Crozier, 1969a: 248 (k.)
• Combination in Hypoclinea: Mayr, 1870b: 955.
• Combination in Iridomyrmex: Dalla Torre, 1893: 169.
• Status as species: Mayr, 1870b: 959 (in key); Mayr, 1876: 80 (in key); Dalla Torre, 1893: 169; André, 1896d: 260 (in key); Emery, 1897: 572; Forel, 1907d: 27; Emery, 1913a: 25; Wheeler, 1915h: 813; Clark, 1929b: 122; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 99; Taylor, 1987a: 32; Shattuck, 1994: 105; Bolton, 1995b: 218.
• Replacement name: Iridomyrmex bicknelli Emery, 1898b.
• [Note: Iridomyrmex bicknelli junior synonym of Iridomyrmex gracilis Lowne, 1865a (synonymy by Heterick & Shattuck, 2011: 49); hence Iridomyrmex bicknelli first available replacement name.]

Obsolete combinations

• Formica gracilis

Citations

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