• Status as species: Dlussky, 1965a: 35 (in key); Dlussky, 1967a: 60; Aktaç, 1977: 127; Arnol'di & Dlussky, 1978: 553 (in key); Agosti & Collingwood, 1987a: 59; Agosti & Collingwood, 1987b: 287 (in key); Arakelian, 1994: 93; Bolton, 1995b: 193; Petrov, 2006: 114 (in key); Gratiashvili & Barjadze, 2008: 133; Guénard & Dunn, 2012: 31; Kiran & Karaman, 2012: 10; Borowiec, 2014: 72; Radchenko, 2016: 297.

Obsolete combinations

• Formica cinerea cinereofusca

Citations

• Agosti, D.; Collingwood, C. A. 1987a. A provisional list of the Balkan ants (Hym. Formicidae) and a key to the worker caste. I. Synonymic list. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 60:51-62. PDF
• Agosti, D.; Collingwood, C. A. 1987b. A provisional list of the Balkan ants (Hym. Formicidae) with a key to the worker caste. II. Key to the worker caste, including the European species without the Iberian. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 60:261-293. PDF
• Aktaç, N. 1977 ("1976"). Studies on the myrmecofauna of Turkey I. Ants of Siirt, Bodrum and Trabzon. Istanbul Universitesi Fen Fakultesi Mecmuasi. Seri B 41:115-135. PDF
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• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
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