• Neotype designation: Wing, 1968a: 98.
• Combination in Lasius: Mayr, 1866b: 889.
• Combination in Lasius (Acanthomyops): Emery, 1893k: 642; Emery, 1925d: 237.
• Combination in Acanthomyops: Creighton, 1950a: 431; Wing, 1968a: 98.
• Combination in Lasius: Ward, 2005: 13.
• Status as species: Mayr, 1863a: 417; Mayr, 1866b: 889 (redescription); Mayr, 1886d: 430; Forel, 1886h: 209; Cresson, 1887: 257; André, 1889: 220; Dalla Torre, 1893: 187; Emery, 1893k: 642; Wheeler, 1900c: 47; Wheeler & McClendon, 1903: 149; Wheeler, 1905j: 398; Wheeler, 1906g: 14; Wheeler, 1910a: 569; Wheeler, 1916o: 172; Wheeler, 1916r: 594; Wheeler, 1917a: 530; Wheeler, 1917k: 464; Emery, 1925d: 237; Menozzi, 1932b: 311; Cole, 1936a: 37; Wheeler & Wheeler, 1944: 257; Buren, 1944a: 298; Creighton, 1950a: 431; Buren, 1950: 188 (in key); Smith, 1951c: 853; Cole, 1954g: 284; Cole, 1966b: 20; Smith, 1967a: 368; Wing, 1968a: 98 (redescription); Hunt & Snelling, 1975: 22; Francoeur, 1977b: 207; Wheeler & Wheeler, 1977b: 4 (in key); Yensen et al., 1977: 184; Smith, 1979: 1441; Allred, 1982: 452; Wheeler & Wheeler, 1986g: 68; DuBois & LaBerge, 1988: 145; MacKay et al., 1988: 104; Wheeler et al., 1994: 305; Bolton, 1995b: 53; Mackay & Mackay, 2002: 273; Coovert, 2005: 131; Ward, 2005: 64; Ellison et al., 2012: 193.

Obsolete combinations

• Formica latipes

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