• Lectotype designation: Agosti, 1989: 187 (in thesis, invalid).
• [Misspelled as suecia by Petrov, 2006: 111 (in key).]
• Subspecies of Formica exsecta: Ruzsky, 1905b: 372; Wheeler, 1908i: 641; Wheeler, 1908k: 408; Emery, 1909b: 193; Wolf, 1915: 48 (footnote).
• Status as species: Wheeler, 1913i: 492 (redescription); Emery, 1925d: 258; Karavaiev, 1931e: 218; Stitz, 1939: 314; Holgersen, 1943c: 175 (in key); Holgersen, 1944a: 184; Forsslund, 1947: 70; Dlussky, 1964: 1035 (redescription); Bernard, 1967a: 326 (redescription); Dlussky, 1967a: 107; Kutter, 1968c: 206; Collingwood, 1971: 167; Dlussky & Pisarski, 1971: 200 (redescription); Arnol'di & Dlussky, 1978: 552 (in key); Collingwood, 1979: 133; Agosti & Collingwood, 1987b: 285 (in key); Nilsson & Douwes, 1987: 77; Douwes, 1995: 97; Bolton, 1995b: 205; Seifert, 2000a: 557 (redescription); Petrov, 2006: 111 (in key); Borowiec, 2014: 79; Steiner et al., 2017: 9; Seifert, 2018: 343; Seifert & Schultz, 2021: 206.

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