Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Australia: N Queensland, Kuranda, nr Cairns (W.L. Brown). Primary type depository: MCZC.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: 18 paratype workers. Secondary type locality: 14 paratype workers “from six or more nest series from Kuranda and immediate vicity”, 19.x.1915 (W.M. Wheeler), 29-30.x.1950 (W.L. Brown), 1.xi.1950 (W.L. Brown), 4 paratype workers Queensland, Cairns dist. (F.P. Dodd). Secondary type depositories: ANIC, MCZC, USNM.