Taxonomic history
Forel, 1902j PDF: 466 (q.).Subspecies of Iridomyrmex rufoniger: Dahl, 1901 PDF: 13 (in key); Forel, 1902j PDF: 466; Forel, 1907d PDF: 27; Forel, 1907h PDF: 20; Forel, 1910b PDF: 52; Emery, 1911g: 249; Emery, 1913a PDF: 26; Forel, 1915b PDF: 78; Crawley, 1915a PDF: 135; Karavaiev, 1926d PDF: 437; Wheeler, 1935g: 36; Donisthorpe, 1941h PDF: 59; Donisthorpe, 1948b PDF: 309; Donisthorpe, 1948g PDF: 138; Chapman & Capco, 1951 PDF: 191; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 103; Taylor, 1987a PDF: 33; Shattuck, 1994 PDF: 111; Bolton, 1995b: 218.Status as species: Heterick & Shattuck, 2011 PDF: 120 (redescription); Sarnat et al., 2013 PDF: 69.Senior synonym of Iridomyrmex rufoniger incertus: Heterick & Shattuck, 2011 PDF: 120.Senior synonym of Iridomyrmex wingi: Heterick & Shattuck, 2011 PDF: 120.Material of the unavailable name Iridomyrmex rufoniger pallidus pallidior referred here by Heterick & Shattuck, 2011 PDF: 120.
