• [Junior primary homonym of Messor muticus Nylander, 1849.]
• Wheeler, 1914e: 120 (q.m.); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1960b: 5 (l.)
• Combination in Myrmica (Oreomyrma): Wheeler, 1914e: 119.
• Combination in Myrmica (Neomyrma): Emery, 1915k: 69 (footnote); Forel, 1915c: 364
• Combination in Myrmica (Manica): Emery, 1921c: 43.
• Combination in Manica: Wheeler & Wheeler, 1944: 244.
• Status as species: Wheeler, 1910a: 566; Wheeler, 1914e: 119 (redescription); Forel, 1915c: 364; Wheeler, 1917a: 507; Emery, 1921c: 43; Essig, 1926: 862; Cole, 1936a: 36; Cole, 1937b: 135; Wheeler & Wheeler, 1944: 244; Creighton, 1950a: 109; Smith, 1951c: 791; Cole, 1953f: 243; Cole, 1957c: 213 (in key); Smith, 1958c: 113; Smith, 1967a: 351; Wheeler & Wheeler, 1970b: 154 (redescription); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1972b: 235; Yensen et al., 1977: 182; Smith, 1979: 1352; Snelling & George, 1979: 46; Allred, 1982: 486; Wheeler & Wheeler, 1986g: 25.
• Replacement name: Manica invidia Bolton, 1995b

Obsolete combinations

• Myrmica mutica

Citations

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