Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Australia: Victoria, Ferntree Gully, between Upper Ferntree Gully Station and entrance to the public park (
W.L. Brown). Primary type depository:
MCZC.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: 62 paratype workers, 8 paratype queens, 1 paratype male. Secondary type localities: paratypes: with same data as holotype, from same locality as holotype but (
J. Clark), from same locality as holotype but (
F.P. Spry), Victoria, summit of Mt Dandenong, 2000 ft (
W.L. Brown), Victoria, Airey’s Inlet, Otway Peninsula (
J.J. McAreavey), Victoria, Millgrove (
J.E. Dixon), Victoria, Woori Yallock (
L.B. Thorn), Australia: Tasmania, Hobart (
A.M. Lea), Tasmania, Trevallyn (
V.V. Hickman), Launceston (
C.E. Cole), Australia: New South Wales, Dorrigo (
W. Heron), Australia: Queensland, Toowoomba (
E.J. Dumigan). Secondary type depositories:
AMSC,
ANIC,
BMNH,
HNHM,
MCZC,
MHNG,
MSNG,
MVMA,
QMBA,
SAMA,
USNM,
WAMP.
Type notes:
Taylor & Brown, 1985: 73, cite holotype in
ANIC.