• Lectotype designation: Buren, 1968a: 33.
• [First available use of Formica sanguinea rubicunda subnuda Emery, 1895d; unavailable (infrasubspecific) name.]
• Wheeler, 1913i: 409 (q.m.); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1953c: 170 (l.)
• Combination in Formica (Formica): Wheeler, 1913i: 409.
• Combination in Formica (Raptiformica): Emery, 1925d: 260.
• As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Wheeler, 1901e: 713; Forel, 1904b: 153.
• Subspecies of Formica sanguinea: Wheeler, 1910a: 570; Wheeler, 1913i: 409 (redescription); Wheeler, 1917a: 533; Wheeler, 1917e: 18; Emery, 1925d: 260; Essig, 1926: 867; Cole, 1936a: 37; Cole, 1937b: 137; Wing, 1939: 165; Cole, 1942: 378; Wheeler & Wheeler, 1944: 267; Buren, 1944a: 308; Cole, 1954c: 163.
• Status as species: Creighton, 1950a: 469; Smith, 1951c: 872; Wilson & Brown, 1955: 118; Smith, 1958c: 160; Smith, 1967a: 373; Buren, 1968a: 33 (redescription); Hunt & Snelling, 1975: 23; Francoeur, 1977b: 208; Yensen et al., 1977: 185; Wheeler & Wheeler, 1978b: 396; Smith, 1979: 1465; Allred, 1982: 476; Snelling & Buren, 1985: 72 (in key); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1986g: 94; MacKay et al., 1988: 116; Blacker, 1992: 11; Wheeler et al., 1994: 307.
• Junior synonym of Formica aserva: Creighton, 1950a: 469; Wilson & Brown, 1955: 118; Smith, 1958c: 160; Buren, 1968a: 33; Smith, 1979: 1465.
• [Note: Creighton, Wilson & Brown, Smith, M.R., Buren, and Smith, D.R. all give Formica subnuda as senior synonym, but Formica aserva has priority (Bolton, 1995b: 204).]

Obsolete combinations

• Formica sanguinea subnuda

Citations

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