Formica bipartita Smith, 1861a: 33 (w.) Palearctic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated, “upward of thirty”). Primary type locality: Holy Land (“Syria and Palestine”): (no further data), ix.-x.1860 (J.D. Hooker & D. Hanbury). Primary type depository: BMNH. Primary type specimen: CASENT0903167. Type notes: Smith comments of the syntypes, “not one possesses an antenna”.