• [Misspelled as pallide-fulva by many authors.]
• Mayr, 1866b: 889 (q.); Emery, 1893k: 657 (m.)
• Combination in Formica (Neoformica): Wheeler, 1913a: 82.
• Status as species: Smith, 1858a: 54; Mayr, 1863a: 418; Mayr, 1866b: 889; Mayr, 1886d: 429; Cresson, 1887: 256; Dalla Torre, 1893: 203; Emery, 1893k: 656 (redescription); Emery, 1895d: 335; Viereck, 1903: 72; Wheeler, 1904i: 369 (in key); Wheeler, 1905j: 400; Wheeler, 1910a: 570; Wheeler, 1913d: 116; Wheeler, 1913i: 548 (redescription); Wheeler, 1917a: 554; Emery, 1925d: 244; Wheeler, 1932a: 16; Wesson & Wesson, 1940: 102; Creighton, 1950a: 550; Smith, 1951c: 859; Smith, 1958c: 153; Carter, 1962a: 8 (in list); Smith, 1967a: 370; Smith, 1979: 1451; Allred, 1982: 474; DuBois & LaBerge, 1988: 148; Deyrup et al., 1989: 99; Bolton, 1995b: 200; Mackay & Mackay, 2002: 364; Deyrup, 2003: 45; Coovert, 2005: 137; MacGown & Forster, 2005: 66; Trager et al., 2007: 624 (redescription); Ellison et al., 2012: 167; Deyrup, 2017: 204.
• Senior synonym of Formica pallidefulva delicata: Trager et al., 2007: 624.
• Senior synonym of Formica pallidefulva fuscata: Trager et al., 2007: 624.
• Senior synonym of Formica nitidiventris: Trager et al., 2007: 624.
• Senior synonym of Formica schaufussi: Trager et al., 2007: 624.
• Senior synonym of Formica pallidefulva succinea: Creighton, 1950a: 550; Smith, 1958c: 153; Smith, 1979: 1451; Bolton, 1995b: 200; Coovert, 2005: 137; Trager et al., 2007: 624.

Junior synonyms

• Formica nitidiventris Emery, 1893
  Obsolete combination(s): Formica pallidefulva nitidiventris
• Formica pallidefulva delicata Cole, 1938
• Formica pallidefulva fuscata Emery, 1893
• Formica pallidefulva succinea Wheeler, 1904
• Formica schaufussi Mayr, 1866
  Obsolete combination(s): Formica pallidefulva schaufussi

Obsolete combinations

• Neoformica pallidefulva

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