• Subspecies of Myrmica schencki: Novák & Sadil, 1941: 80 (in key); Weber, 1948a: 302; Baroni Urbani, 1971c: 36.
• Junior synonym of Myrmica lobicornis: Seifert, 1988b: 38; Bolton, 1995b: 281 (error).
• Junior synonym of Myrmica schencki: Bernard, 1967a: 118; Radchenko, 1994h: 77; Seifert, 2003b: 145; Radchenko et al., 2006: 513.
• Status as species: Elmes et al., 2008: 99 (redescription); Radchenko & Elmes, 2010: 206; Borowiec, 2014: 132; Lebas et al., 2016: 322.

Obsolete combinations

• Myrmica schencki obscura

Citations

• Baroni Urbani, C. 1971c. Catalogo delle specie di Formicidae d'Italia (Studi sulla mirmecofauna d'Italia X). Memorie della Società Entomologica Italiana 50:5-287. PDF
• Bernard, F. 1967a ("1968"). Faune de l'Europe et du Bassin Méditerranéen. 3. Les fourmis (Hymenoptera Formicidae) d'Europe occidentale et septentrionale. Paris: Masson, 411 pp. 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
• Elmes, G. W.; Radchenko, A. G.; Balletto, E.; Barbero, F. 2008. Myrmica obscura Finzi – a good ant species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) endemic to Italy. Fragmenta Faunistica (Warsaw) 51 (2):91-100. PDF
• Finzi, B. 1926. Le forme europee del genere Myrmica Latr. Primo contributo. Bollettino della Società Adriatica di Scienze Naturali in Trieste 29:71-119. PDF
• Lebas, C.; Galkowski, C.; Blatrix, R.; Wegnez, P. 2016. Guide Delachaux: Fourmis d’Europe occidentale. Luçon: Delachaux et Niestlé, 415 pp.
• Novák, V.; Sadil, J. 1941. Klíc k urcování mravencu strední Evropy se zvlástním zretelem k mravencí zvírene Cech a Moravy. Entomologické Listy 4:65-115. PDF
• Radchenko, A. G. 1994h. Survey of the species of the rubra, rugosa, arnoldii, luteola and schencki groups of the genus Myrmica (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from central and eastern Palearctic. [In Russian.]. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 73(11):72-80. 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
• Radchenko, A. G.; Elmes, G. W.; Alicata, A. 2006. Taxonomic revision of the schencki-group of the ant genus Myrmica Latreille (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from the Palaearctic region. Annales Zoologici (Warsaw) 56:499-538. 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. 2003b. The Palaearctic members of the Myrmica schencki group with description of a new species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Beiträge zur Entomologie 53:141-159. PDF
• Weber, N. A. 1948a. A revision of the North American ants of the genus Myrmica Latreille with a synopsis of the Palearctic species. II. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 41:267-308. PDF