Iridomyrmex

• Main Author: Collingwood, C. A.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 1979
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Hymenoptera; Formicidae; Iridomyrmex; Fennoscandia
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/6283723; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6283723

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