• Neotype designation: Dlussky, 1967a: 78.
• Imai, 1966b: 119 (k.)
• Combination in Formica (Serviformica): Emery, 1925d: 247.
• As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Emery, 1909b: 197; Yano, 1911b: 111; Wheeler, 1913i: 499; Teranishi, 1940: 24; Azuma, 1951: 88; Azuma, 1953: 5; Azuma, 1955: 80.
• Subspecies of Formica fusca: Emery, 1909b: 197; Wheeler, 1913i: 397 (in key); Wheeler, 1921c: 543; Emery, 1923a: 62; Emery, 1925d: 247; Santschi, 1925f: 88; Karavaiev, 1926f: 69; Karavaiev, 1927c: 111; Karavaiev, 1927e: 347; Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1928b: 6; Wheeler, 1928d: 123; Wheeler, 1929g: 10; Wheeler, 1929h: 64; Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1929a: 19; Wheeler, 1930b: 106; Wheeler, 1930k: 81; Stitz, 1934: 9; Ruzsky, 1936: 92; Santschi, 1937h: 387; Kôno & Sugihara, 1939: 9; Eidmann, 1941a: 27; Santschi, 1941: 279; Morisita, 1945: 22; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 198; Collingwood, 1962c: 219; Tang et al., 1995: 105.
• Status as species: Dalla Torre, 1893: 199; Dlussky, 1965a: 36 (in key); Dlussky, 1967a: 78; Collingwood, 1976a: 305; Azuma, 1977a: 117; Kupyanskaya, 1980: 100; Onoyama, 1980a: 200; Collingwood, 1981: 27; Wu, 1990: 5 (in key); Kupyanskaya, 1990a: 185; Morisita et al., 1991: 35; Wu & Wang, 1992c: 1311; Bolton, 1995b: 197; Wu & Wang, 1995a: 143; Zhou, 2001a: 175; Chang & He, 2002a: 51 (in key); Zhang & Zheng, 2002: 218; Imai et al., 2003: 57; Lin & Wu, 2003: 61; Radchenko, 2005b: 162; Zhou, 2006: 586; Pfeiffer et al., 2007: 4; Terayama, 2009: 221; Guénard & Dunn, 2012: 31.
• Senior synonym of Formica fusca nipponensis: Emery, 1909b: 197; Yano, 1910a: 422; Yano, 1911b: 111 (in text); Wheeler, 1913i: 499; Emery, 1925d: 248; Karavaiev, 1927c: 111; Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1928b: 6; Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1929a: 19; Ruzsky, 1936: 92; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 199; Dlussky, 1967a: 78; Onoyama, 1980a: 200; Bolton, 1995b: 197; Zhou, 2001a: 175; Imai et al., 2003: 57.

Junior synonyms

• Formica fusca nipponensis Forel, 1900

Citations

• Azuma, M. 1951. On the myrmecological-fauna of Osaka Prefecture, Japan with description of new species (Formicidae, Hymenoptera). [In Japanese and English.]. Hyogo Biology 1:86-90. PDF
• Azuma, M. 1953. On the myrmecological fauna of Mt. Rokko, Hyogo Prefecture. [In Japanese.]. Warera 2:1-7. PDF
• Azuma, M. 1955. A list of ants (Formicidae) from Hokkaido Is. [In Japanese.]. Hyogo Biology 3:79-80. PDF
• Azuma, M. 1977a. On the myrmecological-fauna of Mt. Rokko, Hyogo, with description of a new species (Formicidae, Hymenoptera). [In Japanese.]. Hyogo Biology 7:112-118. PDF
• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Chang, Y.-D.; He, D.-H. 2002a. Taxonomic study of genus Formica L. from northwest China with descriptions of nine new species and four new records (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Formicinae). [In Chinese.]. Zoological Research 23:49-60. PDF
• 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
• Collingwood, C. A. 1962c. Some ants (Hym. Formicidae) from north-east Asia. Entomologisk Tidskrift 83:215-230. PDF
• Collingwood, C. A. 1976a. Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from North Korea. Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici 68:295-309. PDF
• Collingwood, C. A. 1981. Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Korea, 2. Folia Entomologica Hungarica 42[34]:25-30. PDF
• Dalla Torre, K. W. 1893. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp. PDF
• Dlussky, G. M. 1965a. Ants of the genus Formica L. of Mongolia and northeast Tibet (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Annales Zoologici (Warsaw) 23:15-43. PDF
• Dlussky, G. M. 1967a. Ants of the genus Formica (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, g. Formica). [In Russian.]. Moskva: Nauka Publishing House, 236 pp. PDF
• Eidmann, H. 1941a. Zur Ökologie und Zoogeographie der Ameisenfauna von Westchina und Tibet. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der 2. Brooke Dolan-Expedition 1934-1935. Zeitschrift für Morphologie und Ökologie der Tiere 38:1-43. PDF
• Emery, C. 1909b. Beiträge zur Monographie der Formiciden des paläarktischen Faunengebietes. (Hym.) Teil VII. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 1909:179-204. PDF
• Emery, C. 1923a. Einige exotische Ameisen des Deutschen Entomologischen Institutes. Entomologische Mitteilungen. Berlin-Dahlem 12:60-62. PDF
• Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183:1-302. PDF
• Guénard, B.; Dunn, R. R. 2012. A checklist of the ants of China. Zootaxa 3358:1-77. PDF
• Imai, H. T. 1966b. The chromosome observation techniques of ants and the chromosomes of Formicinae and Myrmicinae. Acta Hymenopterologica 2:119-131. 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
• Karavaiev, V. 1926f. Myrmekologische Fragmente. Zbirnyk Prats' Zoolohichnoho Muzeyu 1:47-51 [= Trudy. Ukrains'ka Akademiya Nauk. Fizichno-Matematichnoho Viddilu 4:65-69]. PDF
• Karavaiev, V. 1927c ("1926"). Myrmekologische Miszellen. Ezhegodnik Zoologicheskago Muzeya 27:104-112. PDF
• Karavaiev, V. 1927e. Ameisen aus dem paläarktischen Gebiet. II. Zbirnyk Prats' Zoolohichnoho Muzeyu 2:89-104 [= Trudy. Ukrains'ka Akademiya Nauk. Fizichno-Matematichnoho Viddilu 4:333-348]. PDF
• Kôno, H.; Sugihara, Y. 1939. The ants of fir and pine forests in Japan. [In Japanese.]. Transactions of the Kansai Entomological Society 8:8-14. PDF
• Kupyanskaya, A. N. 1980. Ants of the genus Formica Linnaeus (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of the Soviet Far East. [In Russian.]. Pp. 95-108 in: Ler, P. A. (ed.) 1980. Taxonomy of insects of the Far East. [In Russian.]. Vladivostok: Akademiya Nauk SSSR, 120 pp. PDF
• Kupyanskaya, A. N. 1990a. Ants of the Far Eastern USSR. [In Russian.]. Vladivostok: Akademiya Nauk SSSR, 258 pp.
• Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, N. N. 1928b. Ants of the South Ussuri Region. [In Russian.]. Zapiski Vladivostokskogo Otdela Gosudarstvennogo Russkogo Geograficheskogo Obshchvestva 1(18):1-47. PDF
• Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, N. N. 1929a. Die Ameisen des Süd-Ussuri-Gebietes. Zoologischer Anzeiger 83:16-34. PDF
• Lin, C.-C.; Wu, W.-J. 2003. The ant fauna of Taiwan (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with keys to subfamilies and genera. [In Chinese.]. Guoli Taiwan Bowuguan Niankan 46:5-69.
• Morisita, M. 1945. Ants of the southern part of Hokkaido, Japan. [In Japanese.]. Mushi 16:21-28. PDF
• Morisita, M.; Kubota, M.; Onoyama, K.; Ogata, K.; Terayama, M.; Yamauchi, K.; Sonobe, R.; Kondoh, M.; Imai, H. T. 1991. A guide for the identification of Japanese ants. II. Dolichoderinae and Formicinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). [In Japanese.]. Tokyo: Myrmecological Society of Japan, 56 pp.
• Motschoulsky, V. de 1866. Catalogue des insectes reçus du Japon. Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou 39:163-200. PDF
• Onoyama, K. 1980a. An introduction to the ant fauna of Japan, with a check list (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Kontyû 48:193-212. PDF
• Pfeiffer, M.; Schultz, R.; Radchenko, A.; Yamane, S.; Woyciechowski, M.; Aibek, U.; Seifert, B. 2007. A critical checklist of the ants of Mongolia (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Bonner Zoologische Beiträge 55:1-8. PDF
• Radchenko, A. 2005b. Monographic revision of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of North Korea. Annales Zoologici (Warsaw) 55:127-221. PDF
• Ruzsky, M. 1936. Ants of the Transbaikal region. [In Russian.]. Trudy Biologicheskogo Nauchno-Issledovatel'skogo Instituta Tomskogo Gosudarstvennogo Universiteta 2:89-97. PDF
• Santschi, F. 1925f. Contribution à la faune myrmécologique de la Chine. Bulletin de la Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles 56:81-96. PDF
• Santschi, F. 1937h. Fourmis du Japon et de Formose. Bulletin et Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 77:361-388. PDF
• Santschi, F. 1941. Quelques fourmis japonaises inédites. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 18:273-279. PDF
• Stitz, H. 1934. Schwedisch-chinesische wissenschaftliche Expedition nach den nordwestlichen Provinzen Chinas, unter Leitung von Dr. Sven Hedin und Prof. Sü Ping-chang. Insekten gesammelt vom schwedischen Arzt der Expedition Dr. David Hummel 1927-1930. 25. Hymenoptera. 3. Formicidae. Arkiv för Zoologi 27A(11):1-9.
• Tang, J.; Li, S.; Huang, E.; Zhang, B.; Chen, Y. 1995. Economic insect fauna of China. Fasc. 47. Hymenoptera: Formicidae (1). [In Chinese.]. Beijing: Academy of Science Publishing House, ix + 134 pp.
• Teranishi, C. 1940. Works of Cho Teranishi. Memorial Volume. [In Japanese, English and German, in part.]. Osaka: Kansai Entomological Society, 312 + (posthumous section) 95 pp.
• Terayama, M. 2009. A synopsis of the family Formicidae of Taiwan (Insecta: Hymenoptera). Research Bulletin of Kanto Gakuen University. Liberal Arts 17:81-266. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1913i. A revision of the ants of the genus Formica (Linné) Mayr. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 53:379-565. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1921c. Chinese ants. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 64:529-547. 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
• Wheeler, W. M. 1929g. Some ants from China and Manchuria. American Museum Novitates 361:1-11. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1929h. Ants collected by Professor F. Silvestri in Formosa, the Malay Peninsula and the Philippines. Bollettino del Laboratorio di Zoologia Generale e Agraria della Reale Scuola Superiore d'Agricoltura. Portici 24:27-64. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1930b. Formosan ants collected by Dr. R. Takahashi. Proceedings of the New England Zoological Club 11:93-106. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1930k. A list of the known Chinese ants. Peking Natural History Bulletin 5:53-81. PDF
• Wu, J. 1990. Taxonomic studies on the genus Formica L. of China (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). [In Chinese.]. Forest Research 3:1-8. PDF
• Wu, J.; Wang, C. 1992c. Hymenoptera: Formicidae. [In Chinese.]. Pp. 1301-1320 in: Peng, J.; Liu, Y. (eds.) 1992. Iconography of forest insects in Hunan, China. Hunan: Hunan Scientific and Technical Publishing House, 1473 pp. PDF
• Wu, J.; Wang, C. 1995a. The ants of China. [In Chinese.]. Beijing: China Forestry Publishing House, x + 214 pp.
• Yano, M. 1910a. On the ants of Japan. [In Japanese.]. Dobutsugaku Zasshi (Zoological Magazine) 22:416-425. PDF
• Yano, M. 1911b. A new slave-making ant from Japan. Psyche (Cambridge) 18:110-112. PDF
• Zhang, W.; Zheng, Z.-M. 2002. Studies of ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) fauna in Sichuan Province. [In Chinese.]. Entomotaxonomia 24:216-222. PDF
• Zhou, S. 2001a. Ants of Guangxi. [In Chinese.]. Guilin, China: Guangxi Normal University Press, 255 pp. PDF
• Zhou, S. Y. 2006. Formicidae. Pp. 579-589 in: Li, Z. Z.; Jin, D. C. 2006. Insects from Fanjingshan Landscape. Guizhou Science and Technology Publishing House, Guiyang. Guiyang: Guizhou Science and Technology Publishing House, 700. PDF