Primary type information:
Type-material: syntype worker, syntype queen, syntype male (each illustrated). Type-locality: Switzerland: (no further data), “mountainous region of our country”. Type-depository: unknown.
Type notes:
1) No indication of number of specimens is given. 2) According to Horn & Kahle, 1935: 121, Imhoff material is in MCZC and NMHB, but their publication shows no record at all for Labram.
Status as species: Mayr, 1853c: 110 (redescription).