Iridomyrmex rufoniger r. pallidus Forel, 1901c: 22 (footnote) (w.) AUSTRALIA (Queensland). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: lectotype worker (by designation of Heterick & Shattuck, 2011: 120). Primary type locality: lectotype Australia: Queensland, Mackay (G. Turner). Primary type depository: MHNG. Secondary type information: Secondary type material: 18 paralectotype workers. Secondary type locality: same as for lectotype. Secondary type depositories: ANIC, MHNG. Type notes: Shattuck, 1994: 111, cites 19 worker syntypes (3 ANIC, 16 MHNG); in addition he cites 3 syntypes in MCZC, from Cape York (included as paralectotypes by Heterick & Shattuck, 2011: 120), but this locality is not mentioned in the original description.

Infrasubspecies

• I. r. p. flava Karavaiev, 1926
• I. r. p. incertus Forel, 1901
• I. r. p. pallidior Forel, 1915
• I. r. p. septentrionalis Forel, 1901