• Seifert & Schultz, 2021: 196 (q.)
• Subspecies of Formica exsecta: Chapman & Capco, 1951: 197; Bolton, 1995b: 198.
• Status as species: Seifert, 2000a: 534 (redescription); Pfeiffer et al., 2007: 4; Guénard & Dunn, 2012: 31; Seifert & Schultz, 2021: 196.
• Senior synonym of Formica beijingensis: Seifert & Schultz, 2021: 196.

Junior synonyms

• Formica beijingensis Wu, 1990

Obsolete combinations

• Formica exsecta manchu

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• 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
• Guénard, B.; Dunn, R. R. 2012. A checklist of the ants of China. Zootaxa 3358:1-77. 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
• Seifert, B. 2000a. A taxonomic revision of the ant subgenus Coptoformica Mueller, 1923 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Zoosystema 22:517-568. PDF
• Seifert, B.; Schultz, R. 2021. A taxonomic revision of the Palaearctic ant subgenus Coptoformica Müller, 1923 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Contributions to Entomology 71 (2):177-220. 10.21248/contrib.entomol.71.2.177-220 PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1929g. Some ants from China and Manchuria. American Museum Novitates 361:1-11. PDF