Primary type information:
Type-material: holotype (?) worker. Type-locality: Australia: Tasmania (“Vandiemensland”). Type-depository: unknown, perhaps lost.
Type notes:
1) No indication of number of specimens is given. 2) Shattuck & McArthur, 1995: 121, report that the material was collected at Tasmania, Woolnorth Station (A. Schayer). 3) Not located among Erichson’s material at MNHU by Shattuck & McArthur, 1995: 121.