Iridomyrmex victorianus

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Iridomyrmex victorianus
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Dolichoderinae
Genus: Iridomyrmex
Species:
I. victorianus
Binomial name
Iridomyrmex victorianus
Forel, 1902
Synonyms
  • Iridomyrmex emeryiCrawley, 1918
  • Iridomyrmex mattiroloi parcensForel, 1907

Iridomyrmex victorianus is a species of ant in the genus Iridomyrmex . Described by Auguste-Henri Forel in 1902, the species distributed to the east coast in Australia. The species usually takes an opportunity of using other nests constructed by larger ants, usually abandoned, and some were found in a bull ant nest ( Myrmecia pyriformis ). [1]

References

  1. Shattuck, Brian E. Heterick & Steve (2011). Revision of the ant genus Iridomyrmex (Hymenoptera : Formicidae) (PDF). Auckland, N.Z.: Magnolia Press. ISBN   978-1-86977-676-3 . Retrieved 5 January 2015.