Primary type information:
Type-material: holotype worker. Type-locality: Indonesia: Irian Jaya (“Netherlands New Guinea”), Maffin Bay, 10.ix.1944 (E.S. Ross). Type-depository: CASC.
Secondary type information:
Paratype-material: 6 paratype workers. Paratype-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. Paratype-depositories: CASC, MCZC.
[Rhytidoponera celtinodisBrown, 1958g: 202 (date of publication (30).vi.1958). Nomen nudum (attributed to Wilson).]