• Bondroit, 1920a: 145 (m.)
• Combination in Formica (Serviformica): Emery, 1925d: 247
• Subspecies of Formica fusca: Müller, 1923b: 139; Emery, 1925d: 247; Santschi, 1925g: 352; Zimmermann, 1935: 54; Novák & Sadil, 1941: 107 (in key); Stärcke, 1942a: 22; Holgersen, 1943c: 177 (in key); Holgersen, 1944a: 189; Samsinák, 1951: 122; Ceballos, 1956: 319.
• Status as species: Bondroit, 1918: 48; Bondroit, 1920a: 145; Bondroit, 1920b: 299; Stärcke, 1926a: 148 (in key); Yarrow, 1954a: 231; Collingwood, 1962c: 219; Baroni Urbani, 1964c: 167; Dlussky, 1965a: 35; Bernard, 1967a: 295 (redescription); Dlussky, 1967a: 60; Kutter, 1968b: 61; Collingwood & Yarrow, 1969: 88; Pisarski, 1969a: 232; Pisarski, 1969b: 308; Dlussky & Pisarski, 1970: 87; Baroni Urbani, 1971c: 238; Collingwood, 1971: 169; Dlussky & Pisarski, 1971: 150 (redescription); Banert & Pisarski, 1972: 354; Bolton & Collingwood, 1975: 6 (in key); Pisarski, 1975: 41; Collingwood, 1976a: 305; Van Boven, 1977: 163; Kutter, 1977c: 251; Arnol'di & Dlussky, 1978: 553 (in key); Collingwood, 1978: 94 (in key); Collingwood, 1979: 123; Kupyanskaya, 1980: 101; Onoyama, 1980a: 200; Pisarski & Krzysztofiak, 1981: 161; Collingwood, 1981: 27; Kupyanskaya, 1986b: 97; Agosti & Collingwood, 1987a: 59; Agosti & Collingwood, 1987b: 287 (in key); Nilsson & Douwes, 1987: 80; Wu, 1990: 5 (in key); Kupyanskaya, 1990a: 184; Morisita et al., 1991: 35; Atanassov & Dlussky, 1992: 261; Radchenko, 1994b: 113 (in key); Douwes, 1995: 98; Bolton, 1995b: 197; Poldi et al., 1995: 8; Wu & Wang, 1995a: 144; Tang et al., 1995: 105; Espadaler, 1997g: 28; Czechowski et al., 2002: 80; Imai et al., 2003: 57; Radchenko, 2005b: 163; Csősz & Markó, 2005: 232; Karaman & Karaman, 2005: 60; Bračko, 2006: 147; Markó et al., 2006: 67; Petrov, 2006: 114 (in key); Bračko, 2007: 19; Seifert, 2007: 298; Werner & Wiezik, 2007: 143; Gratiashvili & Barjadze, 2008: 133; Casevitz-Weulersse & Galkowski, 2009: 482; Lapeva-Gjonova et al., 2010: 50; Boer, 2010: 30; Karaman, 2011a: 79; Legakis, 2011: 35; Seppä et al., 2011: 31; Borowiec & Salata, 2012: 495; Czechowski et al., 2012: 208; Guénard & Dunn, 2012: 31; Kiran & Karaman, 2012: 11; Borowiec, 2014: 76; Lebas et al., 2016: 194; Radchenko, 2016: 296; Salata & Borowiec, 2018c: 45; Seifert, 2018: 301.
• Senior synonym of Formica fusca borealis: Dlussky, 1965a: 35; Dlussky & Pisarski, 1971: 150; Bolton, 1995b: 197; Imai et al., 2003: 57; Radchenko, 2016: 296.

Junior synonyms

• Formica fusca borealis Vashkevich, 1924

Obsolete combinations

• Formica fusca lemani

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