• [First available use of Formica rufa rufopratensis minor Gösswald, 1941; unavailable (infrasubspecific) name.]
• Junior synonym of Formica rufa: Bernard, 1967a: 308.
• Junior synonym of Formica polyctena: Betrem, 1960b: 64; Dlussky, 1967a: 93; Dlussky & Pisarski, 1971: 187; Pisarski, 1975: 49; Bolton, 1995b: 198; Czechowski et al., 2002: 73; Karaman, 2011b: 81; Czechowski et al., 2012: 193; Radchenko, 2016: 286; Seifert, 2021: 155.

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