• Combination in Iridomyrmex: Shattuck, 1992a: 16.
• Combination in †Ctenobethylus: Dlussky & Rasnitsyn, 2009: 1036.
• Combination in †Eldermyrmex: Shattuck, 2011: 170.
• Status as species: Burnham, 1979: 113; Keilbach, 1982: 279; Shattuck, 1994: 108; Bolton, 1995b: 218; Dlussky & Rasnitsyn, 2009: 1029; Shattuck, 2011: 170; Perkovsky, 2016: 113; Dubovikoff et al., 2019: 995 (redescription).

Obsolete combinations

• †Iridomyrmex oblongiceps

Citations

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