• Lectotype designation: Francoeur, 1973: 215.
• Forel, 1902k: 699 (q.); Wheeler, 1917a: 547 (m.); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1953c: 165 (l.)
• Combination in Formica (Serviformica): Emery, 1925d: 248.
• As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Forel, 1899b: 128; Wheeler, 1913i: 507; Emery, 1925d: 248; Menozzi, 1932b: 312.
• Subspecies of Formica fusca: Forel, 1902k: 699; Forel, 1904b: 153; Wheeler, 1906i: 344; Wheeler, 1910a: 570; Wheeler, 1913i: 399 (in key); Wheeler, 1917a: 546; Wheeler, 1917e: 20; Essig, 1926: 867; Cole, 1936a: 38; Cole, 1937b: 138; Cole, 1942: 382; Wheeler & Wheeler, 1944: 261; Smith, 1951c: 864.
• Status as species: Pergande, 1900: 519; Creighton, 1950a: 536; Cole, 1954c: 167; Smith, 1958c: 157; Cole, 1966b: 23 (in key); Smith, 1967a: 372; Francoeur, 1973: 215 (redescription); Francoeur, 1975: 262; Hunt & Snelling, 1975: 23; Francoeur, 1977b: 208; Wheeler & Wheeler, 1977b: 15 (in key); Yensen et al., 1977: 185; Wheeler & Wheeler, 1978b: 395; Francoeur & Snelling, 1979: 6; Smith, 1979: 1454; Allred, 1982: 470; Wheeler & Wheeler, 1986g: 90; MacKay et al., 1988: 115; Blacker, 1992: 11; Wheeler et al., 1994: 306; Bolton, 1995b: 199; Mackay & Mackay, 2002: 355; Coovert, 2005: 143; Ward, 2005: 63; Ellison et al., 2012: 164.
• Senior synonym of Formica fusca algida: Francoeur, 1973: 215; Smith, 1979: 1454; Bolton, 1995b: 199.
• Senior synonym of Formica fusca gelida: Francoeur, 1973: 215; Smith, 1979: 1454; Bolton, 1995b: 199.

Junior synonyms

• Formica fusca algida Wheeler, 1915
• Formica fusca gelida Wheeler, 1913

Obsolete combinations

• Formica fusca neorufibarbis

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