| Authorship | 
Taylor, 1967a:
38, figs. 23, 24
 | 
| Forms | 
w.q.l. | 
| Bioregion | 
Australasia | 
| Locality | 
NEW GUINEA (Papua New Guinea) | 
| Primary type information | 
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Papua New Guinea: Kunai Creek, 1300 m., SW side of Bulolo River valley, nr Wau, vi.1962, RWT acc. 1966, leafmold berlesate (R.W. Taylor). Primary type depository: MCZC. | 
| Secondary type information | 
Secondary type material: 35 paratype workers, 6 paratype queens. Secondary type locality: 31 paratype workers, 3 paratype queens with same data as holotype, 4 paratype workers, 3 paratype queens with same data as holotype but RWT acc. 1925. Secondary type depositories: AMNH, ANIC, BMNH, BPBM, CASC, MCZC, MHNG, MNHN, MSNG, USNM. | 
| Type notes | 
Paratypes also in YPC; whereabouts unknown. |