• Wheeler & Wheeler, 1955c: 120 (l.)
• Combination in Vollenhovia: Mayr, 1867a: 94.
• Status as species: Mayr, 1863a: 434; Mayr, 1867a: 94 (redescription); Smith, 1871a: 326; Mayr, 1879: 670; Emery, 1887f: 453; Dalla Torre, 1893: 61; Forel, 1901c: 12; Dahl, 1901: 19; Emery, 1901i: 567; Forel, 1904e: 175; Mann, 1919: 324; Wheeler, 1935g: 22; Ettershank, 1966: 150.
• Subspecies of Vollenhovia oblonga: Emery, 1914f: 406; Emery, 1922c: 164; Donisthorpe, 1932c: 468; Donisthorpe, 1948g: 133; Donisthorpe, 1950a: 339; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 171; Taylor, 1987a: 80; Bolton, 1995b: 423; Sarnat et al., 2013: 72.

Obsolete combinations

• Myrmica pedestris
• Vollenhovia pedestris

Citations

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