• Neotype designation: Seifert, 2021: 160.
• Forel, 1874: 52 (q.m.); Borowiec & Salata, 2022: 159 (q.)
• Subspecies of Formica rufa: Forel, 1874: 52 (in key); Emery & Forel, 1879: 450; Forel, 1886h: 138; Lameere, 1892: 63; Forel, 1892j: 307; Emery, 1893m: 206 (footnote); Ruzsky, 1896: 68; Saunders, 1896: 20; Ruzsky, 1905b: 337; Wheeler, 1906h: 323; Emery, 1909b: 186; Forel, 1909c: 105; Bondroit, 1910: 483; Yano, 1910a: 421; Wheeler, 1913i: 428 (redescription); Stitz, 1914: 92; Emery, 1914c: 158; Forel, 1915d: 57 (in key); Ruzsky, 1915b: 7; Donisthorpe, 1915f: 267; Emery, 1916a: 256; Ruzsky, 1916: 4; Escherich, 1917: 335 (in key); Nadig, 1918: 341; Kulmatycki, 1922: 82; Soudek, 1922b: 80; Finzi, 1923a: 4; Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1923b: 244; Vashkevich, 1924b: 147; Emery, 1925d: 254; Ruzsky, 1925a: 287; Ruzsky, 1925b: 43; Krausse, 1926a: 107; Krausse, 1926d: 264; Karavaiev, 1926e: 195; Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1926c: 96; Santschi, 1926f: 289; Karavaiev, 1927a: 302; Karavaiev, 1927d: 282 (in key); Karavaiev, 1927e: 345; Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1928b: 10; Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1929a: 20; Karavaiev, 1929d: 217; Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1929b: 38; Karavaiev, 1930b: 149; Karavaiev, 1931e: 217; Gösswald, 1932: 32; Teranishi, 1932: 53; Arnol'di, 1933a: 604 (in key); Teranishi, 1934b: 38; Grandi, 1935: 104; Karavaiev, 1935b: 109; Zimmermann, 1935: 54; Karavaiev, 1936: 245 (redescription); Ruzsky, 1936: 91; Karavaiev, 1937: 175; Stitz, 1939: 341; Teranishi, 1940: 22; Gösswald, 1941: 81; Holgersen, 1942b: 13; Holgersen, 1943c: 176 (in key); Holgersen, 1944a: 186; Ceballos, 1956: 320.
• Status as species: Olivier, 1792: 504; Roger, 1863b: 13, 47; André, 1874b: 184 (in key); Mayr, 1877a: 6; Emery, 1878: 48; Mayr, 1880: 26; André, 1882c: 184 (in key); Cresson, 1887: 256; Nasonov, 1889: 17; Dalla Torre, 1893: 204; Ruzsky, 1902a: 232; Ruzsky, 1902d: 10; Ruzsky, 1902e: 15; Ruzsky, 1903c: 205; Ruzsky, 1904b: 5; Forel, 1904c: 385; Forel, 1906c: 189; Wasmann, 1906: 112 (in key); Bondroit, 1912: 352; Donisthorpe, 1915f: 267; Bondroit, 1917a: 174 (in key); Bondroit, 1918: 57; Santschi, 1919e: 246; Müller, 1923b: 142; Lomnicki, 1925a: 16 (in key); Ruzsky, 1926: 110; Betrem, 1926: 213 (in key); Stärcke, 1926a: 149 (in key); Donisthorpe, 1927c: 309; Lomnicki, 1928: 8; Soudek, 1931: 16; Novák & Sadil, 1941: 105 (in key); Stärcke, 1942a: 22; Ruzsky, 1946: 69; Van Boven, 1947b: 188 (in key); Röszler, 1950: 214; Donisthorpe, 1950e: 1064; Yarrow, 1955a: 4; Kutter, 1965b: 140; Dlussky, 1967a: 84; Kutter, 1968b: 61; Kutter, 1968c: 206; Pisarski, 1969b: 313; Dlussky & Pisarski, 1970: 89; Baroni Urbani, 1971c: 222; Collingwood, 1971: 169; Dlussky & Pisarski, 1971: 177 (redescription); Banert & Pisarski, 1972: 355; Paraschivescu, 1972b: 534; Bolton & Collingwood, 1975: 7 (in key); Pisarski, 1975: 46; Tarbinsky, 1976: 194 (redescription); Kutter, 1977c: 272; Collingwood, 1978: 93 (in key); Arnol'di & Dlussky, 1978: 554 (in key); Collingwood, 1979: 152; Dlussky, 1981b: 17; Agosti & Collingwood, 1987a: 59; Agosti & Collingwood, 1987b: 286 (in key); Nilsson & Douwes, 1987: 84; Gösswald, 1989: 19; Wu, 1990: 5 (in key); Atanassov & Dlussky, 1992: 272; Seifert, 1992a: 225; Radchenko, 1994b: 114 (in key); Douwes, 1995: 98; Bolton, 1995b: 201; Poldi et al., 1995: 8; Wu & Wang, 1995a: 144; Espadaler, 1997g: 28; Collingwood & Prince, 1998: 26 (in key); Tinaut & Martínez-Ibañez, 1998d: 37 (in key); Collingwood & Heatwole, 2002: 14; Czechowski et al., 2002: 77; Karaman & Karaman, 2003: 50; Csősz & Markó, 2005: 232; Karaman & Karaman, 2005: 60; Bračko, 2006: 147; Markó et al., 2006: 67; Petrov, 2006: 71, 113 (in key); Schultz et al., 2006: 205; Bračko, 2007: 20; Pfeiffer et al., 2007: 4; Seifert, 2007: 308; Werner & Wiezik, 2007: 159; Zryanin & Zryanina, 2007: 233; Gratiashvili & Barjadze, 2008: 134; Borowiec et al., 2009: 378; Casevitz-Weulersse & Galkowski, 2009: 482; Lapeva-Gjonova et al., 2010: 52; Boer, 2010: 25; Csősz et al., 2011: 59; Karaman, 2011b: 81; Legakis, 2011: 36; Borowiec & Salata, 2012: 495; Czechowski et al., 2012: 202; Guénard & Dunn, 2012: 32; Kiran & Karaman, 2012: 11; Borowiec, 2014: 77 (see note in bibliography); Bračko et al., 2014: 19; Lebas et al., 2016: 174; Radchenko, 2016: 291; Steiner et al., 2017: 9; Salata & Borowiec, 2018c: 45; Seifert, 2018: 316; Werner et al., 2018: 6; Seifert, 2021: 159 (diagnosis); Arcos et al., 2022: 10; Borowiec & Salata, 2022: 157 (redescription).
• [Note: Seifert, 2021: 174 reports on Formica pratensis × Formica lugubris hybrids.]
• Senior synonym of Formica rufa angusticeps: Seifert, 2021: 160.
• Senior synonym of Formica pratensis ciliata Ruzsky, 1926: Dlussky, 1967a: 84; Dlussky & Pisarski, 1971: 177; Tarbinsky, 1976: 194; Seifert, 1992a: 225; Bolton, 1995b: 192; Radchenko, 2016: 291.
• Senior synonym of Formica cordieri: 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.
• Senior synonym of Formica rufa grouvellei: Seifert, 1996a: 200; Casevitz-Weulersse & Galkowski, 2009: 482; Radchenko, 2016: 291; Seifert, 2021: 160.
• Senior synonym of Formica pratensis incisa: Seifert, 2021: 161 (by implication).
• Senior synonym of Formica nigricans: Bernard, 1967a: 314; Dlussky, 1967a: 84; Dlussky & Pisarski, 1971: 177; Paraschivescu, 1972b: 527; Pisarski, 1975: 46; Tarbinsky, 1976: 194; Kutter, 1977c: 272; Collingwood, 1979: 152; Seifert, 1992a: 225; Bolton, 1995b: 201; Czechowski et al., 2002: 77; Werner & Wiezik, 2007: 144; Casevitz-Weulersse & Galkowski, 2009: 482; Czechowski et al., 2012: 202; Radchenko, 2016: 291; Seifert, 2021: 160.
• [Note: Bernard, 1967a: 314, gives Formica nigricans as senior synonym, but Formica pratensis has priority.]
• Senior synonym of Formica nigropratensis: Seifert, 2021: 161.
• Senior synonym of Formica pratensoides: Dlussky, 1967a: 84; Kutter, 1977c: 272; Seifert, 1992a: 225; Bolton, 1995b: 201; Radchenko, 2016: 291; Seifert, 2021: 160.
• Senior synonym of Formica pratensis staerckei: Seifert, 2021: 160.
• Senior synonym of Formica thijssei: Dlussky, 1967a: 84; Kutter, 1977c: 272; Seifert, 1992a: 225; Bolton, 1995b: 201; Radchenko, 2016: 291; Seifert, 2021: 160.

Junior synonyms

• Formica cordieri Bondroit, 1917
  Obsolete combination(s): Formica pratensis cordieri
• Formica nigricans Bondroit, 1912
  Obsolete combination(s): Formica pratensis nigricans
• Formica nigropratensis Betrem, 1962
• Formica pratensis ciliata Ruzsky, 1926
• Formica pratensis incisa Gösswald, 1932
• Formica pratensis staerckei Betrem, 1960
  Obsolete combination(s): Formica nigricans staerckei
• Formica pratensoides Gösswald, 1951
  Obsolete combination(s): Formica minor pratensoides
• Formica rufa angusticeps Stärcke, 1947
• Formica rufa grouvellei Bondroit, 1918
• Formica thijssei Betrem, 1955

Obsolete combinations

• Formica rufa pratensis

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