Over three decades, teams of Australian and American collectors failed to re-find it; entomologists such as E. O. Wilson and William Brown, Jr., made attempts to search for it, but neither was successful.
在往後的30年，澳洲及美國的團隊都沒有成功發現他們；E. O. Wilson 與 William Brown, Jr. 等昆蟲學家都嘗試搜尋未果。