• [Also described as new by Ruzsky, 1896: 69.]
• [Misspelled as uratensis by Bernard, 1967a: 307.]
• Status as species: Ruzsky, 1903c: 206; Ruzsky, 1905b: 348; Emery, 1909b: 189; Wheeler, 1913i: 448 (redescription); Ruzsky, 1915b: 9; Emery, 1925d: 255; Ruzsky, 1925a: 287; Ruzsky, 1925b: 43; Ruzsky, 1926: 111; Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1928b: 12; Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1929a: 21; Karavaiev, 1931c: 114; Arnol'di, 1933a: 604 (in key); Karavaiev, 1936: 249 (redescription); Ruzsky, 1936: 91; Stitz, 1939: 325; Forsslund, 1947: 74; Betrem, 1960b: 76 (in key); Dlussky, 1965a: 28; Bernard, 1967a: 307 (redescription); Dlussky, 1967a: 79; Kutter, 1968b: 61; Kutter, 1968c: 206; Pisarski, 1969a: 233; Pisarski, 1969b: 312; Dlussky & Pisarski, 1970: 88; Collingwood, 1971: 168; Dlussky & Pisarski, 1971: 170 (redescription); Pisarski, 1975: 45; Kutter, 1977c: 274; Arnol'di & Dlussky, 1978: 553 (in key); Collingwood, 1979: 135; Kupyanskaya, 1980: 100; Pisarski & Krzysztofiak, 1981: 164; Agosti & Collingwood, 1987b: 286 (in key); Nilsson & Douwes, 1987: 84; Wu, 1990: 5 (in key); Kupyanskaya, 1990a: 189; Radchenko, 1994b: 113 (in key); Douwes, 1995: 97; Bolton, 1995b: 205; Wu & Wang, 1995a: 144; Czechowski et al., 2002: 87; Radchenko, 2005b: 164; Petrov, 2006: 112 (in key); Pfeiffer et al., 2007: 4; Seifert, 2007: 306; Zryanin & Zryanina, 2007: 233; Casevitz-Weulersse & Galkowski, 2009: 483; Boer, 2010: 28; Czechowski et al., 2012: 223; Guénard & Dunn, 2012: 32; Borowiec, 2014: 80; Lebas et al., 2016: 182; Radchenko, 2016: 307; Seifert, 2018: 315.
• Senior synonym of Formica superba: Wu, 1990: 4; Bolton, 1995b: 205; Radchenko, 2016: 307.

Junior synonyms

• Formica superba Wheeler, 1933
  Obsolete combination(s): Formica pratensis superba

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