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Iridomyrmex hesperus

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Species of ant

Iridomyrmex hesperus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Dolichoderinae
Genus: Iridomyrmex
Species: I. hesperus
Binomial name
Iridomyrmex hesperus
Shattuck, 1993

Iridomyrmex hesperus is a species of ant in the genus Iridomyrmex. Described by Shattuck in 1993, not much is known about the ant, other than its populations are mostly confined in Western Australia.

References

  1. Shattuck, S. O. 1993. Revision of the Iridomyrmex calvus species-group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Invertebr. Taxon. 7 7: 1303-1325 (page 1316, figs. 24, 25 worker described)
  2. 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 2 January 2015.
Taxon identifiers
Iridomyrmex hesperus


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