• [First available use of Formica fusca subpolita specularis Emery, 1893k; unavailable (infrasubspecific) name.]
• Wheeler, 1913i: 465 (w.m.).
• Status as species: Wheeler, 1910a: 570.
• Subspecies of Formica dakotensis: Wheeler, 1913i: 464 (redescription); Smith, 1951c: 862.
• Junior synonym of Formica dakotensis wasmanni: Wheeler, 1908i: 642 (in text); Wheeler, 1913i: 464; Emery, 1925d: 252; Smith, 1951c: 862.
• [Note: Wheeler, Emery, and Smith, give Formica specularis as senior synonym, but Formica dakotensis wasmanni has priority (Bolton, 1995b: 206)].
• Junior synonym of Formica dakotensis: Creighton, 1950a: 484; Smith, 1958c: 154; Smith, 1979: 1457; Bolton, 1995b: 204.

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Creighton, W. S. 1950a. The ants of North America. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 104:1-585. PDF
• Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183:1-302. PDF
• Smith, D. R. 1979. Superfamily Formicoidea. Pp. 1323-1467 in: Krombein, K. V.; Hurd, P. D.; Smith, D. R.; Burks, B. D. (eds.) 1979. Catalog of Hymenoptera in America north of Mexico. Volume 2. Apocrita (Aculeata). Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. i-xvi, 1199-2209.
• Smith, M. R. 1951c. Family Formicidae. Pp. 778-875 in: Muesebeck, C. F. W.; Krombein, K. V.; Townes, H. K. (eds.) 1951. Hymenoptera of America north of Mexico. Synoptic catalogue. United States Department of Agriculture. Agriculture Monograph 2:1-1420. PDF
• Smith, M. R. 1958c. Family Formicidae. Pp. 108-162 in: Krombein, K. V. (ed.) 1958. Hymenoptera of America north of Mexico. Synoptic catalogue. First supplement. United States Department of Agriculture. Agriculture Monograph 2(suppl. 1):1-305. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1908i. The ants of Casco Bay, Maine, with observations on two races of Formica sanguinea Latreille. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 24:619-645. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1908k. Comparative ethology of the European and North American ants. Journal für Psychologie und Neurologie 13:404-435. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1910a. Ants: their structure, development and behavior. New York: Columbia University Press, xxv + 663 pp. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1913i. A revision of the ants of the genus Formica (Linné) Mayr. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 53:379-565. PDF