• Lectotype designation: Dlussky, 1967a: 65.
• [Also described as new by Ruzsky, 1902c: 10 (footnote).]
• Karavaiev, 1936: 226 (m.)
• As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Emery, 1909b: 199; Wheeler, 1913i: 523.
• Junior synonym of Formica rufibarbis: Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1926c: 97.
• Subspecies of Formica cinerea: Ruzsky, 1902d: 12; Ruzsky, 1903b: 303; Ruzsky, 1903c: 206; Ruzsky, 1905b: 405; Wheeler, 1913i: 398 (in key); Ruzsky, 1916: 10; Bondroit, 1918: 54; Soudek, 1922b: 85; Emery, 1925d: 246; Lomnicki, 1925a: 23 (in key); Karavaiev, 1926e: 198; Karavaiev, 1927a: 302; Karavaiev, 1927d: 286 (in key); Finzi, 1928a: 73; Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1929b: 39; Soudek, 1931: 17; Karavaiev, 1936: 226 (redescription); Karavaiev, 1937: 177; Ruzsky, 1946: 69; Dlussky, 1965a: 43 (in key); Dlussky, 1967a: 65.
• Status as species: Arnol'di & Dlussky, 1978: 553 (in key); Agosti & Collingwood, 1987a: 59; Agosti & Collingwood, 1987b: 286 (in key); Bolton, 1995b: 196; Chang & He, 2002a: 57; Petrov, 2006: 112 (in key) (error); Zryanin & Zryanina, 2007: 233 (error); Borowiec, 2014: 76 (error).
• Junior synonym of Formica cinerea: Seifert, 2002: 251; Gratiashvili & Barjadze, 2008: 132; Kiran & Karaman, 2012: 10; Radchenko, 2016: 300.

Obsolete combinations

• Formica cinerea imitans

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