• As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Emery, 1925d: 255.
• Subspecies of Formica pratensis: Bondroit, 1918: 58.
• Status as species: Betrem, 1960b: 77; Collingwood & Yarrow, 1969: 93 (error).
• Junior synonym of Formica nigricans: Betrem, 1962a: 38 (in text); Baroni Urbani, 1964c: 169; Kutter, 1965b: 140; Bernard, 1967a: 314; Baroni Urbani, 1971c: 220; Collingwood, 1971: 169; Collingwood, 1979: 153.
• Junior synonym of Formica pratensis: Dlussky, 1967a: 84; Dlussky & Pisarski, 1971: 177; Paraschivescu, 1972b: 527; Pisarski, 1975: 46; Kutter, 1977c: 272; Seifert, 1992a: 225; Bolton, 1995b: 201; Casevitz-Weulersse & Galkowski, 2009: 482; Radchenko, 2016: 291; Seifert, 2021: 160.

Obsolete combinations

• Formica pratensis cordieri

Citations

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