• Collingwood, 1961a: 70 (m.)
• Subspecies of Formica cinerea: Finzi, 1928a: 70; Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1929b: 39.
• Status as species: Collingwood, 1961a: 70; Collingwood, 1961c: 289.
• Junior synonym of Formica subpilosa: Dlussky, 1965a: 28; Dlussky, 1967a: 70; Arakelian, 1994: 101; Bolton, 1995b: 192; Seifert & Schultz, 2009a: 79.

Obsolete combinations

• Formica cinerea bipilosa

Citations

• Arakelian, G. R. 1994. Fauna of the Republic of Armenia. Hymenopterous insects. Ants (Formicidae). [In Russian.]. Erevan: Gitutium, 153 pp. PDF
• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Collingwood, C. A. 1961a ("1960"). The third Danish Expedition to Central Asia. Zoological Results 27. Formicidae (Insecta) from Afghanistan. Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk Naturhistorisk Forening 123:51-79. PDF
• Collingwood, C. A. 1961c. Ergebnisse der Deutschen Afghanistan-Expedition 1956 der Landessammlungen für Naturkunde Karlsruhe. Formicidae (Hymenoptera Aculeata). Beiträge zur Naturkundlichen Forschung in Südwestdeutschland 19:289-290. PDF
• 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
• Finzi, B. 1928a. Formica cinerea Mayr e varietà paleartiche. Bollettino della Società Entomologica Italiana 60:65-75. PDF
• Karavaiev, V. 1926e. Beiträge zur Ameisenfauna des Kaukasus, nebst einigen Bemerkungen über andere palaearktische Formen. (Schluss). Konowia 5:187-199. PDF
• Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, N. N. 1929b. Die Ameisenfauna Daghestans. Zoologischer Anzeiger 83:34-45. PDF
• Radchenko, A. G.; Fisher, B. L.; Esteves, F. A.; Martynova, E. V.; Bazhenova, T. N.; Lasarenko, S. N. 2025. Ant type specimens (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in the collection of Volodymyr Opanasovych Karawajew. Communication 3. Formicinae. Zootaxa 5613 (3):469-499. 10.11646/zootaxa.5613.3.3 PDF
• Seifert, B.; Schultz, R. 2009a. A taxonomic revision of the Formica subpilosa Ruzsky, 1902 group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Myrmecological News 12:67-83. PDF