• [Unresolved junior primary homonym of Formica pratensis nuda Ruzsky, 1926 (Bolton, 1995b: 200).]
• Subspecies of Formica rufa: Karavaiev, 1931e: 216; Holgersen, 1943c: 176 (in key); Holgersen, 1944a: 189; Ruzsky, 1946: 69; Röszler, 1950: 213.
• Junior synonym of Formica rufa: Karavaiev, 1936: 240; Gösswald, 1941: 73; Yarrow, 1955a: 4.
• Junior synonym of Formica polyctena: Stärcke, 1947: 145 (in text); Dlussky, 1967a: 93; Dlussky & Pisarski, 1971: 187; Bolton, 1995b: 200; Radchenko, 2016: 286.
• [Note: Seifert, 2021: 176, has this as an unavailable name.]

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