• Forel, 1915b: 79 (q.).
• Subspecies of Iridomyrmex purpureus: Greenslade, 1974a: 247; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 102.
• Raised to species: Shattuck, 1993a: 134.
• See also: Heterick & Shattuck, 2011: 136.

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