• Lectotype designation: Dlussky, 1967a: 70.
• Karavaiev, 1911a: 17 (q.m.).
• Combination in Formica (Serviformica): Ruzsky, 1915b: 13; Emery, 1925d: 250.
• As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Emery, 1909b: 198; Karavaiev, 1910: 269 (footnote).
• Subspecies of Formica rufibarbis: Ruzsky, 1902d: 12; Forel, 1904c: 385; Ruzsky, 1905b: 397; Karavaiev, 1911a: 16; Wheeler, 1913i: 516 (redescription); Ruzsky, 1915a: 421; Ruzsky, 1915b: 13; Ruzsky, 1916: 5; Emery, 1925d: 250; Ruzsky, 1925a: 287; Ruzsky, 1925b: 44; Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1926c: 97; Santschi, 1928b: 45; Karavaiev, 1929d: 213; Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1929b: 39; Ruzsky, 1936: 95; Novák & Sadil, 1941: 107 (in key); Ruzsky, 1946: 69; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 199.
• Junior synonym of Formica rufibarbis: Bernard, 1967a: 297.
• Status as species: Bondroit, 1918: 51; Collingwood, 1961a: 70; Dlussky, 1965a: 28; Dlussky, 1967a: 70; Pisarski, 1967a: 416; Dlussky & Pisarski, 1970: 88; Pisarski, 1970a: 323; Tarbinsky, 1976: 189 (redescription); Arnol'di & Dlussky, 1978: 553 (in key); Dlussky, 1981b: 17; Dlussky et al., 1990: 140; Arakelian, 1994: 101; Radchenko, 1994b: 114 (in key); Bolton, 1995b: 204; Collingwood & Heatwole, 2002: 14; Schultz et al., 2006: 205; Gratiashvili & Barjadze, 2008: 134; Seifert & Schultz, 2009a: 79 (redescription); Guénard & Dunn, 2012: 32; Borowiec, 2014: 79; Bračko, 2019: 170.
• Senior synonym of Formica bipilosa: Dlussky, 1965a: 28; Dlussky, 1967a: 70; Arakelian, 1994: 101; Bolton, 1995b: 204; Seifert & Schultz, 2009a: 79.
• Material of the unavailable name Formica rufibarbis subpilosa clara referred here by Dlussky, 1965a: 28; Dlussky, 1967a: 70; Tarbinsky, 1976: 189; Bolton, 1995b: 204.
• Material of the unavailable name Formica rufibarbis subpilosa fallax referred here by Dlussky, 1965a: 28; Dlussky, 1967a: 70; Bolton, 1995b: 204.
• Material of the unavailable name Formica rufibarbis clara subpilosoclara referred here by Dlussky, 1967a: 70; Bolton, 1995b: 204.

Junior synonyms

• Formica bipilosa Karavaiev, 1926
  Obsolete combination(s): Formica cinerea bipilosa

Obsolete combinations

• Formica rufibarbis subpilosa

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