Primary type information:
Type-material: syntype workers, syntype queens, syntype males (numbers not stated). Type-localities: Australia: New South Wales, Broken Hill (F.W. Shepherd), New South Wales, Dubbo (W.W. Froggatt); non-type locality syntypes South Australia, Finke River (G.F. Hill), Victoria, Nhill (J. Clark). Type-depository: MVMA.
Type notes:
Type-locality New South Wales by restriction of Clark, 1951: 186.
Status as species: Clark, 1951: 184 (redescription).