It was first described in 1897 by Gustav Breddin from a specimen found at Puerto Toro on Navarin Island in Tierra del Fuego.
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A Swedish expedition collected a second specimen in a forest on the Brunswick Peninsula near Punta Arenas, Chile, and Haglund unknowingly described it as a new genus and species ( " Nordenskjoldiella insignis " ), but it later proved to be a sub-brachypterous female corresponding with the macropterous male described by Breddin.