Formica viridis Kirby, 1819: 478 (q.) AUSTRALIA. Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype queen(s) (number not stated). Primary type locality: Australia (“New Holland”): “Habitat in Australasia septentrionali” (R. Brown). Primary type depository: BMNH. Type notes: Type series may also include workers as Kirby writes, “This is the ant the bite of which Sir Joseph Banks found so painful.”