• [Also described as new by Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1927b: 26.]
• Status as species: Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1928a: 20; Dlussky, 1962: 183; Dlussky, 1969a: 222 (redescription); Tarbinsky, 1976: 166 (redescription); Agosti & Collingwood, 1987a: 60; Agosti & Collingwood, 1987b: 288 (in key); Bolton, 1995b: 368; Petrov, 2006: 114 (in key); Schultz et al., 2006: 205; Legakis, 2011: 36; Borowiec & Salata, 2012: 532; Guénard & Dunn, 2012: 38; Nezhad et al., 2012: 70; Borowiec, 2014: 151; Lebas et al., 2016: 240.
• Senior synonym of Proformica nitida alpina: Dlussky, 1969a: 222; Tarbinsky, 1976: 166; Bolton, 1995b: 368.
• Senior synonym of Proformica nitida orites: Dlussky, 1969a: 222; Tarbinsky, 1976: 166; Bolton, 1995b: 368.

Junior synonyms

• Proformica nitida alpina Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1927
• Proformica nitida orites (Santschi, 1928)
  Obsolete combination(s): Formica nitida orites

Obsolete combinations

• Formica nitida

Citations

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• Agosti, D.; Collingwood, C. A. 1987b. A provisional list of the Balkan ants (Hym. Formicidae) with a key to the worker caste. II. Key to the worker caste, including the European species without the Iberian. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 60:261-293. PDF
• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Borowiec, L. 2014. Catalogue of ants of Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and adjacent regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 25 (1-2):1-340. PDF
• Borowiec, L.; Salata, S. 2012. Ants of Greece – checklist, comments and new faunistic data (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 23 (4):461-563. PDF
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• Guénard, B.; Dunn, R. R. 2012. A checklist of the ants of China. Zootaxa 3358:1-77. PDF
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• Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, N. N. 1928a. Beiträge zur Ameisenfauna Mittelasiens. I. Die Gattung Proformica, Ruzsky 1903. Zoologischer Anzeiger 75:7-23. PDF
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