• Lectotype designation: Radchenko, 2005b: 142.
• [Misspelled as kurokui by Chapman & Capco, 1951: 128.]
• As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Emery, 1921c: 39; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 128.
• Subspecies of Myrmica ruginodis: Wheeler, 1928d: 100; Onoyama, 1980a: 197; Onoyama, 1989a: 133.
• Subspecies of Myrmica rubra Linnaeus, 1758: Weber, 1947b: 449.
• Status as species: Collingwood, 1976a: 300; Ogata, 1991b: 78; Morisita et al., 1992: 10; Bolton, 1995b: 280; Imai et al., 2003: 182; Radchenko, 2005b: 142; Radchenko & Elmes, 2010: 170; Chen et al., 2016: 114 (in key).
• Senior synonym of Myrmica orientalis: Radchenko, 2005b: 142; Radchenko & Elmes, 2010: 170.

Junior synonyms

• Myrmica orientalis Karavaiev, 1926
  Obsolete combination(s): Myrmica ruginodis orientalis

Obsolete combinations

• Myrmica rubra kotokui

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Chapman, J. W.; Capco, S. R. 1951. Check list of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Asia. Monographs of the Institute of Science and Technology. Manila 1:1-327. PDF
• Chen, Z.; Zhou, S.; Huang, J. 2016. Seven species new to science and one newly recorded species of the ant genus Myrmica Latreille, 1804 from China, with proposal of a new synonym (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). ZooKeys 551:85-128. 10.3897/zookeys.551.6005 PDF
• Collingwood, C. A. 1976a. Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from North Korea. Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici 68:295-309. PDF
• Emery, C. 1921c. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [part]. Genera Insectorum 174A:1-94 + 7 plates. PDF
• Forel, A. 1911g. Die Ameisen des K. Zoologischen Museums in München. Sitzungsberichte der Mathematischen-Physikalischen Klasse der Königlich Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu München 11:249-303. PDF
• Imai, H. T.; Kihara, A.; Kondoh, M.; Kubota, M.; Kuribayashi, S.; Ogata, K.; Onoyama, K.; Taylor, R. W.; Terayama, M.; Tsukii, Y.; Yoshimura, M.; Ugawa, Y. 2003. Ants of Japan. Tokyo: Gakken, 224 pp. PDF
• Morisita, M.; Kubota, M.; Onoyama, K.; Ogata, K.; Terayama, M.; Yamauchi, K.; Sonobe, R.; Yamane, S.; Kondoh, M.; Imai, H. T. 1992. A guide for the identification of Japanese ants. III. Myrmicinae and supplement to Leptanillinae. (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). [In Japanese.]. Tokyo: Myrmecological Society of Japan, 94 pp.
• Ogata, K. 1991b. A generic synopsis of the poneroid complex of the family Formicidae (Hymenoptera). Part II. Subfamily Myrmicinae. Bulletin of the Institute of Tropical Agriculture Kyushu University 14:61-149. PDF
• Onoyama, K. 1980a. An introduction to the ant fauna of Japan, with a check list (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Kontyû 48:193-212. PDF
• Onoyama, K. 1989a. Confirmation of the occurrence of Myrmica rubra (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Japan with taxonomic and ecological notes. Japanese Journal of Entomology 57:131-135. PDF
• Radchenko, A. 2005b. Monographic revision of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of North Korea. Annales Zoologici (Warsaw) 55:127-221. 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
• Weber, N. A. 1947b. A revision of the North American ants of the genus Myrmica Latreille with a synopsis of the Palearctic species. I. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 40:437-474. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1928d. Ants collected by Professor F. Silvestri in Japan and Korea. Bollettino del Laboratorio di Zoologia Generale e Agraria della Reale Scuola Superiore d'Agricoltura. Portici 22:96-125. PDF