• Status as species: Smith, 1858a: 119.
• Junior synonym of Myrmica rubra: Karavaiev, 1934: 65.
• Junior synonym of Myrmica ruginodis: Mayr, 1861: 63 (in key), Mayr, 1863: 435; Roger, 1863b: 28; Dours, 1873: 168; André, 1874c: 203 (in list); Forel, 1874: 101 (in list); Emery & Forel, 1879: 460; Dalla Torre, 1893: 115; Ruzsky, 1905b: 671; Donisthorpe, 1915f: 115; Emery, 1921c: 39; Donisthorpe, 1927c: 125; Bolton, 1995b: 278; Radchenko, 2007: 28; Radchenko & Elmes, 2010: 236; Radchenko, 2016: 120.

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