Iridomyrmex hesperus is a species of ant in the genus Iridomyrmex. Described by Shattuck in 1993, not much is known about the ant, other than its populations are mostly confined in Western Australia.[1][2]

Iridomyrmex hesperus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Dolichoderinae
Genus: Iridomyrmex
Species:
I. hesperus
Binomial name
Iridomyrmex hesperus
Shattuck, 1993

References

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  1. ^ Shattuck, S. O. 1993. Revision of the Iridomyrmex calvus species-group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Invertebr. Taxon. 7 7: 1303-1325 (page 1316, figs. 24, 25 worker described)
  2. ^ Shattuck, Brian E. Heterick & Steve (2011). Revision of the ant genus Iridomyrmex (Hymenoptera : Formicidae) (PDF). Auckland, N.Z.: Magnolia Press. ISBN 978-1-86977-676-3. Retrieved 2 January 2015.