Iridomyrmex gumnos

Iridomyrmex gumnos is a species of ant in the genus Iridomyrmex. Described by Heterick and Shattuck in 2011, the biology of the ant remains unknown, but it is distributed in South Australia and New South Wales.[1]

Iridomyrmex gumnos
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I. gumnos
Binomial name
Iridomyrmex gumnos
Heterick & Shattuck, 2011

Etymology

The specific epithet (gumnos) is said to be Latin for nude.[1] In classical Latin, the proper word for "nude" is nudus.[2] The ancient Greek word for "nude" is however gumnos (γυμνός).[3]

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References

  1. 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.
  2. Lewis, C.T. & Short, C. (1879). A Latin dictionary founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  3. Liddell, H.G. & Scott, R. (1940). A Greek-English Lexicon. Revised and augmented throughout by Sir Henry Stuart Jones with the assistance of Roderick McKenzie.Oxford: Clarendon Press.


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