• Wheeler, 1915h: 811 (q.)
• Wheeler & Wheeler, 1974b: 400 (l.)
• Raised to species: Wheeler & Wheeler, 1974b: 400
• Subspecies of Iridomyrmex purpureus: Greenslade, 1974a: 247; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 102
• Raised to species: Shattuck, 1993a: 142
• See also: Shattuck, 1994: 113; Heterick & Shattuck, 2011: 155

Obsolete combinations

• Iridomyrmex detectus viridiaeneus

Citations

• Greenslade, P. J. M. 1974a. The identity of Iridomyrmex purpureus form viridiaeneus Viehmeyer (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 13:247-248. PDF
• Heterick, B. E.; Shattuck, S. 2011. Revision of the ant genus Iridomyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 2845:1-174. PDF
• Shattuck, S. O. 1993a. Revision of the Iridomyrmex purpureus species-group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 7:113-149. PDF
• Shattuck, S. O. 1994. Taxonomic catalog of the ant subfamilies Aneuretinae and Dolichoderinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). University of California Publications in Entomology 112:i-xix, 1-241. PDF
• Taylor, R. W.; Brown, D. R. 1985. Formicoidea. Zoological Catalogue of Australia 2:1-149, 306-348.
• Viehmeyer, H. 1914b ("1913"). Neue und unvollständig bekannte Ameisen der alten Welt. Archiv für Naturgeschichte (A)79(12):24-60. PDF
• Wheeler, G. C.; Wheeler, J. 1974b ("1973"). Ant larvae of the subfamily Dolichoderinae: second supplement (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Pan-Pacific Entomologist 49:396-401. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1915h. Hymenoptera. [In "Scientific notes on an expedition into the north-western regions of South Australia".]. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 39:805-823. PDF