• Cole, 1957c: 210 (q.m.); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1960b: 6 (l.)
• Combination in Myrmica (Oreomyrma): Wheeler, 1914e: 120.
• Combination in Myrmica (Neomyrma): Emery, 1915k: 69 (footnote); Forel, 1915c: 364.
• Combination in Myrmica (Manica): Emery, 1921c: 43.
• Combination in Manica: Weber, 1947b: 440.
• Status as species: Wheeler, 1910a: 566; Wheeler, 1914e: 120; Forel, 1915c: 364; Wheeler, 1917a: 506; Emery, 1921c: 43; Essig, 1926: 862; Creighton, 1950a: 108; Smith, 1951c: 791; Cole, 1957c: 210; Smith, 1967a: 351; Wheeler & Wheeler, 1970b: 145 (redescription); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1978b: 391; Smith, 1979: 1352; Wheeler & Wheeler, 1986g: 25; Bolton, 1995b: 249; Ward, 2005: 33; He et al., 2024: 383.
• Senior synonym of Manica calderoni: Wheeler, 1915a: 50; Emery, 1921c: 43; Creighton, 1950a: 109; Smith, 1979: 1352; Bolton, 1995b: 249; He et al., 2024: 383.
• Senior synonym of Manica parasitica: Prebus et al., 2023: 6; Zharkov et al., 2024: 16.

Junior synonyms

• Manica calderoni (Forel, 1914)
  Obsolete combination(s): Aphaenogaster calderoni
• Manica parasitica (Creighton, 1934)
  Obsolete combination(s): Myrmica parasitica

Obsolete combinations

• Myrmica bradleyi

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
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• Creighton, W. S. 1950a. The ants of North America. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 104:1-585. PDF
• Emery, C. 1915k. Definizione del genere Aphaenogaster e partizione di esso in sottogeneri. Parapheidole e Novomessor nn. gg. Rendiconti delle Sessioni della Reale Accademia delle Scienze dell'Istituto di Bologna. Classe di Scienze Fisiche (n.s.)19:67-75. PDF
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• Prebus, M.; Georgiev, B. B.; van de Kamp, T.; Hamann, E.; Baker, I.; Rabeling, C. 2023. The rediscovery of the putative ant social parasite Manica parasitica syn. nov. (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) reveals an unexpected endoparasite syndrome. Biology Letters 19: 20230399:1-7. 10.1098/rsbl.2023.0399 PDF
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