Taxonomic history
[First available use of Myrmica rubra brevinodis brevispinosa Wheeler, 1907; unavailable (infrasubspecific) name.].Wheeler & Wheeler, 1953a PDF: 117 (l.).As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Wheeler, 1910a PDF: 566.Subspecies of Myrmica brevinodis: Emery, 1921c PDF: 37; Wheeler & Wheeler, 1944 PDF: 241; Weber, 1950c PDF: 198 (redescription); Smith, 1951c PDF: 789; Smith, 1958c PDF: 113; Smith, 1967a PDF: 349.Status as species: Creighton, 1950a PDF: 97; Gregg, 1961 PDF: 211; Francoeur, 1977b PDF: 206; Yensen et al., 1977 PDF: 182; Smith, 1979: 1348; Allred, 1982: 490; Wheeler & Wheeler, 1986g PDF: 23; MacKay et al., 1988: 93; Wheeler et al., 1994 PDF: 303; Bolton, 1995b: 278; Mackay & Mackay, 2002 PDF: 157; Ellison et al., 2012: 282.Senior synonym of Myrmica brevinodis decedens: Weber, 1950c PDF: 198; Creighton, 1950a PDF: 97; Smith, 1951c PDF: 789; Smith, 1979: 1348; Bolton, 1995b: 278.