Taxonomic history
[First available use of Formica fusca subpolita perpilosa Wheeler, 1902; unavailable (infrasubspecific) name.].Combination in Formica (Raptiformica): Emery, 1925d PDF: 259.Status as species: Wheeler, 1913i PDF: 421 (redescription); Wheeler, 1917a PDF: 534; Emery, 1925d PDF: 259; Cole, 1937b PDF: 137; Cole, 1942 PDF: 378; Creighton, 1950a PDF: 467; Smith, 1951c PDF: 867; Cole, 1954c PDF: 163; Smith, 1958c PDF: 158; Beck et al., 1967: 70; Smith, 1967a PDF: 370; Francoeur, 1975 PDF: 259; Hunt & Snelling, 1975 PDF: 23; Francoeur & Snelling, 1979 PDF: 4; Smith, 1979: 1450; Snelling & George, 1979: 248; Dlussky, 1981b PDF: 48; Allred, 1982: 474; Wheeler & Wheeler, 1986g PDF: 79; MacKay et al., 1988: 109 (in key); Bolton, 1995b: 201; Mackay & Mackay, 2002 PDF: 365; Ward, 2005 PDF: 63.