• Junior synonym of Formica fusca: Emery, 1892c: 162; Dalla Torre, 1893: 196; Forel, 1915d: 63 (in key); Donisthorpe, 1915f: 304; Emery, 1925d: 247; Donisthorpe, 1927c: 349; Karavaiev, 1936: 228; Bolton, 1995b: 205; Radchenko, 2016: 294.

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