Primary type information:
Primary type material: lectotype worker (by designation of Heterick, 2001: 431). Primary type locality: lectotype Australia: Western Australia, Ludlow (J. Clark). Primary type depository: MCZC.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: 1 paralectotype worker. Secondary type locality: same as for lectotype. Secondary type depository: MCZC.
Type notes:
Other original syntype locality: 1 worker Australia: Western Australia, Rottnest I., nr Lady Edeline Beach, 23.x.1931, (Harvard Expd.) (W.M. Wheeler).