• Neotype designation: Radchenko, 1994f: 78.
• Junior synonym of Myrmica bessarabicus: Radchenko, 1994f: 77.
• Junior synonym of Myrmica specioides: Seifert, 2002a: 95 (by implication); Radchenko & Elmes, 2004: 229 (by implication).
• Status as species: Seifert, 1988b: 22 (redescription); Bolton, 1995b: 277; Radchenko & Elmes, 2010: 98 (redescription); Borowiec, 2014: 129.

Obsolete combinations

• Myrmica pilosiscapus bakurianica

Citations

• Arnol'di, K. V. 1970b. Review of the ant genus Myrmica (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in the European part of the USSR. [In Russian.]. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 49:1829-1844. PDF
• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Borowiec, L. 2014. Catalogue of ants of Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and adjacent regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 25 (1-2):1-340. PDF
• Radchenko, A. G. 1994f. Survey of the species of the scabrinodis group of the genus Myrmica (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from central and eastern Palearctic. [In Russian.]. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 73(9):75-82. PDF
• Radchenko, A. G.; Elmes, G. W. 2004. Taxonomic notes on the scabrinodis-group of Myrmica species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) living in eastern Europe and western Asia, with a description of a new species from Tien Shan. Trudy Russkago Entomologicheskago Obshchestva 75(1):222-233. PDF
• Radchenko, A. G.; Elmes, G. W. 2010. Myrmica ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of the Old World. Fauna Mundi 3. Warsaw: Natura Optima Dux Foundation, 790 pp. PDF
• Seifert, B. 1988b. A taxonomic revision of the Myrmica species of Europe, Asia Minor, and Caucasia (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Abhandlungen und Berichte des Naturkundemuseums Görlitz 62(3):1-75. PDF
• Seifert, B. 2002a. The "type" of Myrmica bessarabica Nassonov 1889 and the identity of Myrmica salina Ruzsky 1905. Mitteilungen. Münchner Entomologische Gesellschaft 92:93-100. PDF