• Status as species: Nylander, 1846b: 1047.
• Junior synonym of Formica sanguinea: Smith, 1851: 115; Schenck, 1852: 36; Smith, 1855a: 102; Mayr, 1855: 337; Nylander, 1856b: 62; Smith, 1858a: 4; Mayr, 1863a: 420; Roger, 1863b: 13; Smith, 1871c: 1; Dours, 1873: 165; André, 1874c: 202 (in list); Forel, 1874: 98 (in list); Emery & Forel, 1879: 451; Dalla Torre, 1893: 211; Forel, 1894c: 403; Ruzsky, 1905b: 411; Wheeler, 1913i: 401; Donisthorpe, 1915f: 280; Emery, 1925d: 259; Donisthorpe, 1927c: 323; Karavaiev, 1936: 258; Bolton, 1995b: 194; Imai et al., 2003: 59; Radchenko, 2007: 37; Radchenko, 2016: 292.

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