Lives ENTIRELY UNDERGROUND in soil mounds — workers RARELY emerge above ground in daylight (only the periodic flying alates emerge for synchronized mating swarms).

BURIES HERSELF IN SAND for ambush predation — only the EYES EXPOSED at the surface. Lunges out to seize prey detected by vibrations transmitted through the sand.

She digs and inhabits deep vertical burrows up to 1 m below ground in northern Queensland eucalypt woodland.