• Lectotype designation: Buren, 1968a: 31.
• Wheeler, 1913i: 413 (q.m.)
• Combination in Formica (Formica): Wheeler, 1913i: 413.
• Combination in Formica (Raptiformica): Emery, 1925d: 260.
• Subspecies of Formica sanguinea: Wheeler, 1901e: 713; Wheeler, 1910a: 570; Wheeler, 1913i: 413 (redescription); Wheeler, 1917a: 534; Emery, 1925d: 260; Creighton, 1934: 197; Cole, 1936a: 37; Cole, 1937b: 137; Cole, 1942: 378; Smith, 1951c: 871.
• Junior synonym of Formica subintegra: Wilson & Brown, 1955: 120.
• Status as species: Creighton, 1950a: 468; Cole, 1954c: 163; Smith, 1958c: 158; Smith, 1967a: 372; Buren, 1968a: 30 (redescription); Snelling, 1969c: 196; Yensen et al., 1977: 185; Wheeler & Wheeler, 1978b: 396; Smith, 1979: 1465; Allred, 1982: 475; Snelling & Buren, 1985: 72 (in key); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1986g: 94; MacKay et al., 1988: 113 (in key); Bolton, 1995b: 202; Mackay & Mackay, 2002: 369; Ward, 2005: 64.

Obsolete combinations

• Formica sanguinea puberula

Citations

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