• As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Emery & Forel, 1879: 450; Emery, 1909b: 191; Emery, 1916a: 257; Baroni Urbani, 1971c: 227.
• Status as species: Bondroit, 1918: 62.
• Subspecies of Formica exsecta: André, 1882c: 179 (in key); Dalla Torre, 1893: 195; Ruzsky, 1896: 68; Ruzsky, 1905b: 358; Wheeler, 1913i: 397 (in key), 490; Forel, 1915d: 58 (in key); Wolf, 1915: 48 (footnote); Nadig, 1918: 341; Lomnicki, 1925a: 14 (in key); Ruzsky, 1925b: 43; Emery, 1925d: 257; Ruzsky, 1936: 92; Ruzsky, 1946: 69.
• Junior synonym of Formica exsecta: Dlussky, 1964: 1027; Dlussky, 1967a: 100; Bernard, 1967a: 323; Bolton, 1995b: 202; Seifert, 2000a: 525; Czechowski et al., 2002: 89; Casevitz-Weulersse & Galkowski, 2009: 481; Czechowski et al., 2012: 228; Radchenko, 2016: 309; Seifert & Schultz, 2021: 192.

Obsolete combinations

• Formica exsecta rubens

Citations

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