• Status as species: Nylander, 1846b: 1053; Foerster, 1850a: 56.
• Junior synonym of Tetramorium caespitum: Smith, 1851: 118; Schenck, 1852: 86; Curtis, 1854: 215; Mayr, 1855: 427; Smith, 1855b: 123; Nylander, 1856b: 87; Smith, 1858a: 117; Roger, 1863b: 26; Mayr, 1863a: 456; Mayr, 1865: 89; Smith, 1871c: 3; Dours, 1873: 168; André, 1874c: 203 (in list); Forel, 1874: 100 (in list); Emery & Forel, 1879: 458; Dalla Torre, 1893: 132; Ruzsky, 1905b: 519; Donisthorpe, 1915f: 170; Forel, 1915d: 14; Emery, 1924f: 276; Donisthorpe, 1927c: 190; Karavaiev, 1934: 156; Pisarski, 1975: 25; Bolton, 1995b: 408; Chang & He, 2001b: 2; Zhou, 2001a: 104; Radchenko, 2007: 31; Radchenko, 2016: 244; Wagner et al., 2017: 114.

Obsolete combinations

• Myrmica fuscula

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