title: Iridomyrmex gumnos
text: # 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.
  
  ## Etymology
  
  The specific epithet (gumnos) is said to be Latin for nude. In classical Latin, the proper word for "nude" is nudus. The ancient Greek word for "nude" is however gumnos (γυμνός).
  
  