Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated, “numerous”), 2 syntype males. Primary type locality: Australia: Queensland, Cape York Peninsula, McIlwraith (“McIlthwaite”) Range, Lankelly Creek (P.J. Darlington). Primary type depositories: MCZC, MVMA, USNM.
Type notes:
1) Shattuck, 1994: 115, cites 21 worker, 2 male syntypes. 2) Shattuck also cites 5 worker syntypes in MCZC, from Cape York, Coen, a locality not mentioned in the original description but which is the type locality of both the junior synonyms Leptomyrmex darlingtoni fascigaster and Leptomyrmex darlingtoni jucundus.