Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Indonesia: Irian Jaya (“Netherlands New Guinea”), Maffin Bay, 10.ix.1944 (E.S. Ross). Primary type depository: CASC. Primary type specimen: CASTYPE06887.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: 6 paratype workers. Secondary type locality: 3 paratype workers with same data as holotype, 3 paratype workers with same data as holotype but 1.vii.1944, and 14.ix.1944. Secondary type depositories: CASC, MCZC.
[Rhytidoponera celtinodisBrown, 1958g: 202 (date of publication (30).vi.1958). Nomen nudum (attributed to Wilson).]