• [Type-species not Formica flava Fabricius, 1782, unjustified subsequent designation by Emery, 1916b: 61 (footnote); repeated by Emery, 1916a: 239 (footnote); Wheeler, 1916o: 170; Emery, 1917a: 96.]
• Formicina in Camponotinae, Formicini: Forel, 1917: 249.
• Formicina in Camponotinae, Prenolepidini: Emery, 1916a: 239.
• Formicina as replacement name for Lasius Fabricius, 1804: Emery, 1916b: 60; Emery, 1916a: 239; Bondroit, 1918: 19.
• Formicina as genus: Emery, 1916b: 61; Emery, 1916a: 239; Forel, 1917: 249; Bondroit, 1918: 19.
• Formicina as subgenus of Lasius: Wheeler, 1916o: 172.
• Formicina as junior synonym of Lasius: Emery, 1925d: 226; Brown, 1973b: 180 [provisional]; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 18; Tang et al., 1995: 108.
• Formicina as junior synonym of Acanthomyops: Donisthorpe, 1916e: 276; Donisthorpe, 1927c: 209.
• Formicina as junior synonym of Formica: Wheeler, 1911c: 860; Wheeler, 1911g: 164; Donisthorpe, 1916e: 276 (in text); Donisthorpe, 1943g: 646; Agosti, 1994b: 106; Bolton, 1994: 50; Bolton, 1995b: 30; Bolton, 2003: 128.
• [Note i: Formica and Formicina share the same type-species, synonymy is therefore absolute.]
• [Note ii: genus Formicina Canestrini, 1873: 52, a junior homonym of Formicina Shuckard, 1840e, is an arachnid.]

Obsolete classifications

• Chthonolasius (Formicina)
• Formicina (Formicina)
• Lasius (Formicina)

Citations

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