Iridomyrmex horni

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Iridomyrmex horni (Kirby, 1896) junior synonym of current valid taxon Iridomyrmex purpureus (Smith, 1858)

Camponotus horni Kirby, 1896: 205 (w.q.) AUSTRALIA (Northern Territory). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: lectotype worker (by designation of Shattuck, 1993a: 132). Primary type locality: lectotype Australia: Palm Creek, v.-viii.1894 (no collector’s name; perhaps B. Spencer) Primary type depository: MVMA. Secondary type information: Secondary type material: 6 paralectotype workers, 2 paralectotype queens. Secondary type locality: same as for lectotype. Secondary type depositories: BMNH, MCZC, MVMA.

Lectotype designation: Shattuck, 1993a: 132.
Combination in Iridomyrmex: Clark, 1930c: 20.
Status as species: Taylor & Brown, 1985: 115; Taylor, 1987a: 13.
Junior synonym of Iridomyrmex detectus: Clark, 1930c: 20.
Junior synonym of Iridomyrmex purpureus: Shattuck, 1993a: 128; Shattuck, 1994: 109; Bolton, 1995b: 218; Heterick & Shattuck, 2011: 124.

Obsolete combinations

Camponotus horni

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Clark, J. 1930c. New Formicidae, with notes on some little-known species. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria (n.s.)43:2-25. PDF
Heterick, B. E.; Shattuck, S. 2011. Revision of the ant genus Iridomyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 2845:1-174. PDF
Kirby, W. F. 1896. Supplement to the Zoological Report. Hymenoptera. Pp. 203-209 in: Spencer, B. (ed.) 1896. Report on the work of the Horn Scientific Expedition to central Australia. Part 1. London: Dulau and Co., xviii + 220 pp. 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.

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