Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated, “numerous”), 2 syntype males. Primary type locality: Australia: Queensland, Cape York Peninsula, McIlwraith (“McIlthwaite”) Range, Lankelly Creek, 1931-32, (Harvard Expd.) (
P.J. Darlington). Primary type depositories:
MCZC,
MVMA,
USNM.
Type notes:
1)
Shattuck, 1994: 115, cites 21 worker, 2 male syntypes (16w, 2m
MCZC, 2w
MVMA, 3w
USNM). 2)
Shattuck, 1994 also cites 5 worker syntypes in
MCZC, from Cape York, Coen, a locality not mentioned in the original description but which is the type locality of both the junior synonyms
Leptomyrmex darlingtoni fascigaster and
Leptomyrmex darlingtoni jucundus.