Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated, “a small colony”). Primary type locality: Australia: Victoria, Belgrave (
F.E. Wilson). Primary type depositories:
MCZC,
MVMA. Primary type specimen:
ANTWEB1008136.
Type notes:
The original description cites material from “Victoria, Altona (
F.P. Spry), Belgrave (
F.E. Wilson), Eltham (
J.E. Dixon), Cheltenham (
C. Barrett & L.B. Thorn)”, but
Clark, 1928a says the species was “described from a small colony from Belgrave”; hence Belgrave is the type locality (
Brown, 1952l: 265 (in text)).