• Lectotype designation: Betrem, 1962a: 38.
• [First available use of Formica rufa pratensis nigricans Emery, 1909b; unavailable (infrasubspecific) name.]
• As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Wheeler, 1913i: 391 (in key), 429; Forel, 1915d: 57 (in key); Emery, 1916a: 256; Soudek, 1922b: 80; Emery, 1925d: 255; Krausse, 1926b: 115; Krausse, 1926d: 264; Stärcke, 1926a: 149 (in key); Santschi, 1932e: 72.
• Subspecies of Formica pratensis: Bondroit, 1918: 59; Lomnicki, 1925a: 23 (in key); Gösswald, 1932: 147; Novák & Sadil, 1941: 105 (in key); Van Boven, 1947b: 189.
• Status as species: Yarrow, 1955a: 9; Betrem, 1960b: 77 (in key); Betrem, 1962a: 38; Dlussky, 1962: 183; Baroni Urbani, 1964c: 169; Dlussky, 1965a: 28; Kutter, 1965b: 140; Bernard, 1967a: 314 (redescription); Collingwood & Yarrow, 1969: 93; Baroni Urbani, 1971c: 220; Collingwood, 1971: 169; Paraschivescu, 1972b: 534; Collingwood, 1978: 93 (in key); Collingwood, 1979: 153; Agosti & Collingwood, 1987a: 59; Agosti & Collingwood, 1987b: 286 (in key); Poldi et al., 1995: 8; Gallé et al., 1998: 218 (error); Csősz & Markó, 2005: 232 (error); Karaman & Karaman, 2005: 60 (error); Petrov, 2006: 113 (in key) (error).
• Junior synonym of Formica pratensis: Bernard, 1967a: 314; Dlussky, 1967a: 84; Dlussky & Pisarski, 1971: 177; Paraschivescu, 1972b: 527; Pisarski, 1975: 46; Tarbinsky, 1976: 194; Kutter, 1977c: 272; Collingwood, 1979: 152; Seifert, 1992a: 225; Bolton, 1995b: 199; Czechowski et al., 2002: 77; Werner & Wiezik, 2007: 144; Casevitz-Weulersse & Galkowski, 2009: 482; Czechowski et al., 2012: 202; Radchenko, 2016: 291; Seifert, 2021: 160.
• [Note: Bernard, 1967a: 314, gives Formica nigricans as senior synonym, but Formica pratensis has priority.]

Obsolete combinations

• Formica pratensis nigricans

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