• Senior synonym of Formica specularis: Wheeler, 1908i: 642 (in text); Wheeler, 1913i: 464; Emery, 1925d: 252; Smith, 1951c: 862.
• [Note: Wheeler, Emery, and Smith, give Formica specularis as senior synonym, but Formica dakotensis wasmanni has priority].
• Junior synonym of Formica dakotensis: Creighton, 1950a: 484; Smith, 1979: 1457; Bolton, 1995b: 206.

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
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