Formica pratensis Retzius, 1783: 75 (w.) GERMANY. Palearctic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: neotype worker (by designation of Seifert, 2021: 160). Primary type locality: neotype Germany: GER: 51.4048°N, 14.8746°E, Daubitz-3.3 km. ENE, 162 m., 30.vi.1999-050 (R. Schultz). Primary type depository: SMNG (neotype). Type notes: 1) Original type data: holotype (?) worker (no further data), type material lost. 2) Retzius does not appear in Horn & Kahle, 1936.

Infrasubspecies

• F. r. p. ciliata Ruzsky, 1915
• F. r. p. foreli Krausse, 1926
• F. r. p. incisa Krausse, 1922
• F. r. p. major Gösswald, 1941
• F. r. p. nigricans Emery, 1909
• F. r. p. rufoides Forel, 1874
• F. r. p. rufotruncicola Ruzsky, 1895
• F. r. p. santschii Krausse, 1926
• F. r. p. unicolor Ruzsky, 1914