• Replacement name for Formica rufibarbis montana Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1923b. [Junior primary homonym of Formica montana Wheeler, 1910a.]
• Subspecies of Formica rufibarbis: Stärcke, 1935a: 268 (footnote); Dlussky, 1962: 182.
• Junior synonym of Formica glauca: Dlussky, 1967a: 74; Bolton, 1995b: 199.
• Junior synonym of Formica cunicularia: Atanassov & Dlussky, 1992: 267.
• Unidentifiable taxon; incertae sedis in Formica: Seifert & Schultz, 2009b: 271.

Obsolete combinations

• Formica rufibarbis montivaga

Citations

• Atanassov, N.; Dlussky, G. M. 1992. Fauna of Bulgaria. Hymenoptera, Formicidae. [In Bulgarian.]. Fauna na Bûlgariya 22:1-310.
• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Dlussky, G. M. 1962. Ants of the northern slopes of the Talasskii Alatau range. [In Russian.]. Trudy Instituta Zoologii. Akademiya Nauk Kazakhskoi SSR 18:177-188. PDF
• Dlussky, G. M. 1967a. Ants of the genus Formica (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, g. Formica). [In Russian.]. Moskva: Nauka Publishing House, 236 pp. PDF
• Santschi, F. 1928b. Nouvelles fourmis de Chine et du Turkestan Russe. Bulletin et Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 68:31-46. PDF
• Seifert, B.; Schultz, R. 2009b. A taxonomic revision of the Formica rufibarbis Fabricius, 1793 group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Myrmecological News 12:255-272. PDF
• Stärcke, A. 1935a. Zoologie. Formicidae. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnissee der Niederländischen Expeditionen in den Karakorum 1:260-269. PDF