Dolichoderus haueri (Mayr) Heterick & Shattuck, 2011

Heterick, Brian E. & Shattuck, Steve, 2011, Revision of the ant genus Iridomyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) 2845, Zootaxa 2845 (1), pp. 1-174 : 170

Dolichoderus haueri (Mayr) , comb. nov.

Hypoclinea haueri Mayr, 1867b .

Types. Holotype queen from Yugoslovia (Miocene).

Comments. Another species based on an impression fossil of a queen, the identity of this taxon remains obscure. Dalla Torre (1893) transferred it to Iridomyrmex , a treatment followed by Shattuck (1992a) . Mayr’s (1867b) figure of the type queen reveals little detail other than wing venation. While the general pattern is dolichoderine-like it differs from extant species of Iridomyrmex in having the Rs vein join M at 1m-cu, rather than basal to this cross vein, resulting in the cell enclosed by Rs, M and 2rs-m having three sides rather than four. A three-sided cell similar to Mayr’s (1869) figure for this species is present in some Dolichoderus (especially species formerly placed in Hypoclinea ), a condition not seen in Iridomyrmex . Because of this it would seem that this species would be better placed in Dolichoderus rather than Iridomyrmex .