Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Australia (“New Holland”): (no further data). Primary type depository:
MNHN.
Type notes:
1)
Emery, 1897: 588,
Emery, 1914f: 428, and
Taylor & Brown, 1985: 135, say the holotype is in
MNHN, but later
Kohout & Taylor, 1990: 514, say the “holotype cannot be located in any relevant European collection and appears to have been lost”. 2)
Emery, 1914f: 428, and
Kohout & Taylor, 1990: 514, imply that the correct type locality is New Caledonia, and that the original locality of Australia is an error.