Taxonomic history
Subspecies of Iridomyrmex rufoniger: Forel, 1910b PDF: 52; Emery, 1913a PDF: 26; Forel, 1915b PDF: 78; Santschi, 1928e PDF: 471; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 103; Taylor, 1987a PDF: 33; Shattuck, 1994 PDF: 111; Bolton, 1995b: 219; Heterick, 2009 PDF: 53.Status as species: Heterick & Shattuck, 2011 PDF: 144 (redescription).Senior synonym of Iridomyrmex obscurus: Heterick & Shattuck, 2011 PDF: 144.Material of the unavailable names Iridomyrmex rufoniger suchieri blackalensis, Iridomyrmex rufoniger suchieri centralis referred here by Heterick & Shattuck, 2011 PDF: 144.