• Wheeler, 1907c: 74 (q.); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1953a: 116 (l.)
• Subspecies of Myrmica rubra: Forel, 1904b: 154; Wheeler, 1904f: 303; Wheeler, 1905j: 384; Wheeler, 1906g: 6; Wheeler, 1907c: 73 (redescription); Wheeler, 1908i: 621; Wheeler, 1910a: 566; Santschi, 1911d: 5; Dennis, 1938: 288.
• Status as species: Wheeler, 1901a: 433; Wheeler, 1914c: 53 (in text); Wheeler, 1916r: 587; Wheeler, 1917a: 502; Wheeler, 1917e: 16; Emery, 1921c: 37; Essig, 1926: 862; Cole, 1936a: 36; Weber, 1939b: 150; Wing, 1939: 162; Cole, 1942: 368; Wheeler & Wheeler, 1944: 240; Weber, 1950c: 189 (redescription); Creighton, 1950a: 95; Smith, 1951c: 789; Cole, 1953f: 243; Smith, 1958c: 113; Smith, 1967a: 349; Wheeler & Wheeler, 1978b: 389.
• Junior synonym of Myrmica incompleta: Francoeur & Béique, 1966a: 141; Smith, 1979: 1349; Bolton, 1995b: 278; Coovert, 2005: 36.

Obsolete combinations

• Myrmica rubra brevinodis

Citations

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