Type notes:
Material included: Australia: Western Australia, Northampton, stat. 71, and Subiaco, stat. 109 (W. Michaelsen & R. Hartmeyer); workers, queens, males, deposited in ANIC, MCZC, MHNG, MVMA, WAMP (no type status).
As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Emery, 1913a: 24.
Declared as unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Taylor, 1986: 34.