Species Iridomyrmex viridiaeneus Viehmeyer, 1914

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• Iridomyrmex detectus viridiaeneus Viehmeyer, H. 1914. Neue und unvollständig bekannte Ameisen der Alten Welt. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 79A [1913](12): 24-60 [41].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) ZMB *W, Killalpaninna, SA; ANIC W, Killalpaninna, SA.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, WA: Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nullarbor (NUL), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tanami (TAN)

Ecological Descriptors

Noctidiurnal, omnivore, terrestrial, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Nest in ground layer.

General References

Greenslade, P. 1981. Temperature limits to trailing activity in the Australian and-zone ant Iridomyrmex purpureus form viridiaeneus. Australian Journal of Zoology 29: 621-630 (foraging behaviour)

Shattuck, S.O. 1993. Revision of the Iridomyrmex purpureus species-group (Hymenoptera : Formicidae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 7: 113-149 [113] (revision)

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