Iridomyrmex meinerti

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

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Iridomyrmex meinerti Forel, 1901 junior synonym of current valid taxon Iridomyrmex anceps (Roger, 1863)

Iridomyrmex meinerti Forel, 1901c: 22 (q.) NEW GUINEA (Papua New Guinea). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype queen. Primary type locality: Papua New Guinea: Bismarck Archipelago, New Britain I., Ralum (F. Dahl). Primary type depository: unknown (Heterick & Shattuck, 2011: 42, say “not located... apparently lost”).

Status as species: Dahl, 1901: 13; Emery, 1913a: 25; Wheeler, 1935g: 35; Shattuck, 1994: 108; Bolton, 1995b: 218.
Junior synonym of Iridomyrmex anceps: Heterick & Shattuck, 2011: 40

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Dahl, F. 1901. Das Leben der Ameisen im Bismarck-Archipel, nach eigenen Beobachtungen vergleichend dargestellt. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin 2:1-70. PDF
Emery, C. 1913a ("1912"). Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Dolichoderinae. Genera Insectorum 137:1-50. PDF
Forel, A. 1901c. Formiciden aus dem Bismarck-Archipel, auf Grundlage des von Prof. Dr. F. Dahl gesammelten Materials. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin 2:4-37.
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
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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