• Replacement name for Formica sanguinea clara Karavaiev, 1927e. [Junior primary homonym of Formica clara Forel, 1886h.]
• Subspecies of Formica sanguinea: Karavaiev, 1936: 262 (redescription)
• Junior synonym of Formica sanguinea: Dlussky, 1965a: 16; Dlussky, 1967a: 97; Dlussky & Pisarski, 1971: 189; Bolton, 1995b: 197; Radchenko, 2016: 292.

Obsolete combinations

• Formica sanguinea leninei

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Dlussky, G. M. 1965a. Ants of the genus Formica L. of Mongolia and northeast Tibet (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Annales Zoologici (Warsaw) 23:15-43. PDF
• Dlussky, G. M. 1967a. Ants of the genus Formica (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, g. Formica). [In Russian.]. Moskva: Nauka Publishing House, 236 pp. PDF
• Dlussky, G. M.; Pisarski, B. 1971. Rewizja polskich gatunków mrówek (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) z rodzaju Formica L. Fragmenta Faunistica (Warsaw) 16:145-224. PDF
• Karavaiev, V. 1936. The fauna of the family Formicidae (ants) of the Ukraine. Part II (conclusion). [In Ukrainian.]. Trudy Instytutu Zoolohii ta Biolohii Ukrains'koi Akademii Nauk. Seriya 1. Pratsi z Systematyky ta Faunistyky 1936:161-316.
• Radchenko, A. G. 2016. Ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of Ukraine. National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Kiev: I. I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, 496 pp.
• Santschi, F. 1928b. Nouvelles fourmis de Chine et du Turkestan Russe. Bulletin et Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 68:31-46. PDF