Species Iridomyrmex victorianus Forel, 1902

Museums

Regional Maps

• Iridomyrmex rufoniger victorianus Forel, A. 1902. Fourmis nouvelles d'Australie. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 10: 405-548 [466].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) GMNH W,Q, Ballarat, VIC; ANIC W, Ballarat, VIC.
• Iridomyrmex mattiroloi parcens Forel, A. 1907. Formicides du Musée National Hongrois. Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici (Zoologica) 5: 1-42 [30 June 1907] [27].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) probably in GMNH or MNH, Mt. Victoria, Blue Mts., NSW.
• Iridomyrmex emeryi Crawley, W.C. 1918. Some new Australian ants. Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation 30: 86-92 [90].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) possibly OUM, Healesville, VIC.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Heterick, B.E. & Shattuck, S.O. 2011. Revision of the ant genus Iridomyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 2845: 1-174 [153]

Distribution

States

Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Noctidiurnal, omnivore, terrestrial, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Nest in ground layer.

History of changes