• Zetterstedt, 1838: 451 (q.m.).
• [Unresolved junior primary homonym of Eciton vagans Olivier, 1792 (Bolton, 1995b: 206).]
• Combination in Myrmica: Stephens, 1829b: 356; Zetterstedt, 1838: 451; Curtis, 1854: 213.
• Junior synonym of Myrmica rubra: Stephens, 1829b: 356.
• Status as species: Fabricius, 1804: 407; Zetterstedt, 1838: 451; Curtis, 1854: 213; Smith, 1855b: 117; Mayr, 1855: 407; Dalla Torre, 1893: 118.
• Unidentifiable taxon; incertae sedis in Formica: Bolton, 1995b: 206.
• [Note (i): Formica vagans Fabricius, 1793 is certainly a myrmicine ant: Latreille, 1802a: 250 (in text), suspected that Formica vagans Fabricius, 1793 may be Myrmica rubra Linnaeus, 1758.]
• [Note (ii): Curtis, 1854: 213, Roger, 1863b: 28, Forel, 1874: 101 (in list), Emery & Forel, 1879: 460, all regarded Formica vagans Fabricius, 1793 as a synonym of Myrmica ruginodis Nylander, 1846a.]

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