• Lectotype designation: Elmes & Radchenko, 1998: 222.
• [Myrmica margaritae var. formosae Wheeler, 1928c: 9. Nomen nudum.]
• [Junior primary homonym of Podomyrma formosa Smith, 1858a.]
• Subspecies of Myrmica margaritae: Wheeler, 1930b: 95; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 127
• Subspecies of Myrmica ritae: Weber, 1950c: 220 (redescription).
• Status as species: Radchenko, 1994a: 44; Bolton, 1995b: 279; Radchenko & Elmes, 1998: 7; Elmes & Radchenko, 1998: 222; Lin & Wu, 2003: 64; Terayama, 2009: 160.
• Senior synonym of Myrmica pulchella: Radchenko & Elmes, 1998: 7; Elmes & Radchenko, 1998: 222; Terayama, 2009: 160.
• Replacement name: Myrmica pulchella Santschi, 1937h (Radchenko & Elmes, 2010: 221).
• [Note: Myrmica pulchella Santschi, 1937h junior synonym of Myrmica formosae Wheeler, 1929h (synonymy by Radchenko & Elmes, 1998: 7); hence Myrmica pulchella Santschi, 1937h first available replacement name.]

Obsolete combinations

• Myrmica margaritae formosae

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
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• Wheeler, W. M. 1929h. Ants collected by Professor F. Silvestri in Formosa, the Malay Peninsula and the Philippines. Bollettino del Laboratorio di Zoologia Generale e Agraria della Reale Scuola Superiore d'Agricoltura. Portici 24:27-64. PDF
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