Iridomyrmex maccooki

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Iridomyrmex maccooki
Scientific classification (junior homonym and junior synonym of Forelius mccooki)
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Dolichoderinae
Tribe: Leptomyrmecini
Genus: Forelius
Species: Iridomyrmex maccooki
Forel, 1886

This taxon is a junior homonym and junior synonym and has been replaced by Forelius mccooki.

Nomenclature

The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.

  • maccooki. Iridomyrmex maccooki Forel, 1886b: xxxix (w.) U.S.A. (Texas).
    • [Iridomyrmex maccooki Forel, 1878: 382. Nomen nudum.]
    • Status as species: Forel, 1895b: 110; Forel, 1899c: 102; Wheeler, W.M. 1905b: 131; Emery, 1906c: 176; Wheeler, W.M. 1910g: 569; Forel, 1912h: 43; Gallardo, 1916a: 78; Cole, 1937b: 137; Wheeler, W.M. 1938: 252; Shattuck, 1994: 94 (error).
    • Junior homonym and junior synonym of mccooki McCook, 1880: 187.

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