• [Junior primary homonym of Neoponera foetida Linnaeus, 1758 (Emery, 1921a: 26).]
• Crozier, 1970a: 113 (k.); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1974b: 401 (l.)
• Status as species: Cresson, 1887: 256; Dalla Torre, 1893: 196; Wheeler, 1901c: 520; Emery, 1913a: 35; Creighton, 1950a: 345; Smith, 1951c: 836; Smith, 1967a: 365; Kempf, 1972b: 109; Hunt & Snelling, 1975: 22; Yensen et al., 1977: 183; Smith, 1979: 1419; Snelling & George, 1979: 163; Allred, 1982: 461; Wheeler & Wheeler, 1986g: 56.
• Senior synonym of Forelius maccooki Forel, 1886b: Wheeler, 1901c: 520; Wheeler, 1902g: 23; Emery, 1913a: 35; Creighton, 1950a: 345; Smith, 1951c: 836; Kempf, 1972b: 109; Shattuck, 1994: 94.
• Replacement name: Forelius mccooki McCook, 1880
• [Note: Forelius mccooki McCook, 1880 junior synonym of Forelius foetidus Buckley, 1866 (synonymy by Wheeler, 1901c: 520); hence Forelius mccooki McCook, 1880 first available replacement name for Forelius foetidus Buckley, 1866.]

Obsolete combinations

• Formica foetida

Citations

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