• Status as species: Santschi, 1941: 278.
• Subspecies of Formica pratensis: Chapman & Capco, 1951: 201.
• Junior synonym of Formica uralensis: Wu, 1990: 4; Bolton, 1995b: 205; Radchenko, 2016: 307.

Obsolete combinations

• Formica pratensis superba

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Chapman, J. W.; Capco, S. R. 1951. Check list of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Asia. Monographs of the Institute of Science and Technology. Manila 1:1-327. PDF
• Radchenko, A. G. 2016. Ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of Ukraine. National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Kiev: I. I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, 496 pp.
• Santschi, F. 1941. Quelques fourmis japonaises inédites. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 18:273-279. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1933c. New ants from China and Japan. Psyche (Cambridge) 40:65-67. PDF
• Wu, J. 1990. Taxonomic studies on the genus Formica L. of China (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). [In Chinese.]. Forest Research 3:1-8. PDF