Iridomyrmex

• Main Author: Collingwood, C. A.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 1979
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Hymenoptera; Formicidae; Iridomyrmex; Fennoscandia
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6283722; https://zenodo.org/record/6283722

Genus Iridomyrmex Mayr, 1862 Iridomyrmex Mayr, 1862:702. Type-species: Formica detecta Smith, 1858. Workers monomorphic; antennae 12 segmented, maxillary palps 6-, labial palps 4- segmented. Mesopropodeal impression deep and distinct. Petiole a low forward inclined scale. Queens considerably larger than workers; fore-wings with a closed radial cell, 2 closed cubital cells and one discoidal. Male not larger than worker, antennae filiform, 13 segmented with scape shorter than second funiculus segment; mesonotum relatively massive overhanging pronotum and part of head; wings with one closed cubital cell. Gaster considerably smaller than alitrunk; genital armature not conspicuously enlarged. This genus has the largest number of species in Australasia with a few in South America of which one cosmopolitan species has become well established in South Europe. : Published as part of Collingwood, C. A., 1979, The Formicidae (Hymenoptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark., pp. 1-174 in Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica 8 on page 33