• [Also described as new by Forel, 1908i: 105.]
• As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Donisthorpe, 1927c: 375.
• Declared as unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Bolton, 1995b: 194.
• Material referred to Formica picea Nylander, 1846a by Emery, 1909b: 159; Wheeler, 1913i: 512; Donisthorpe, 1915f: 325; Forel, 1915d: 62 (in key); Emery, 1925d: 249; Karavaiev, 1936: 231.

Citations

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