• Lectotype designation: Dlussky, 1967a: 63.
• [Misspelled as gagotoides by Dlussky, 1967a: 63.]
• Ruzsky, 1915a: 423 (m.); Stärcke, 1935a: 267 (footnote) (m.)
• Combination in Formica (Serviformica): Emery, 1925d: 249.
• As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Emery, 1909b: 195; Wheeler, 1913i: 398 (in key), 512.
• Subspecies of Formica fusca: Ruzsky, 1905b: 377; Ruzsky, 1915a: 423; Vashkevich, 1924b: 148; Stärcke, 1935a: 267 (footnote).
• Subspecies of Formica picea Nylander, 1846a: Emery, 1925d: 249; Karavaiev, 1931c: 111; Stitz, 1939: 368; Menozzi, 1939a: 322 (in key).
• Junior synonym of Formica picea Nylander, 1846a: Bernard, 1967a: 299.
• Status as species: Holgersen, 1942b: 14; Holgersen, 1943a: 3; Holgersen, 1943c: 176 (in key); Holgersen, 1944a: 190; Forsslund, 1947: 75; Dlussky, 1965a: 36 (in key); Dlussky, 1967a: 63; Collingwood, 1971: 170; Kutter, 1977c: 255; Sonobe & Dlussky, 1977: 23; Arnol'di & Dlussky, 1978: 553 (in key); Collingwood, 1979: 121; Kupyanskaya, 1980: 102; Onoyama, 1980a: 200; Kupyanskaya, 1986b: 97; Agosti & Collingwood, 1987b: 287 (in key); Nilsson & Douwes, 1987: 80; Wu, 1990: 5 (in key); Kupyanskaya, 1990a: 188; Morisita et al., 1991: 34; Wu & Wang, 1995a: 143; Douwes, 1995: 98; Bolton, 1995b: 195; Chang & He, 2002a: 51 (in key); Zhang & Zheng, 2002: 219; Imai et al., 2003: 57; Petrov, 2006: 114 (in key); Karaman, 2011b: 79; Guénard & Dunn, 2012: 31; Borowiec, 2014: 75; Bharti et al., 2016: 27; Lebas et al., 2016: 196; Seifert, 2018: 302.

Obsolete combinations

• Formica fusca gagatoides

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