Taxonomic history
[First available use of Myrmecocystus melliger mimicus californicus Cole, 1936; unavailable (infrasubspecific) name.].Combination in Formica: Snelling, 1969b PDF: 2.[Unresolved junior secondary homonym of Formica microgyna californica Wheeler, 1917 (Bolton, 1995b: 192).].As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Smith, 1951c PDF: 855.Subspecies of Myrmecocystus melliger: Smith, M.R. 1958c: 151.Status as species: Bolton, 1995b: 192.[Note: identity and status of this taxon have not been ascertained. It is therefore included in Formica as a taxon at species-rank, to dissociate it from its original combination in Myrmecocystus, and to separate it from its original rank as a subspecies of Myrmecocystus melliger. The name Myrmecocystus melliger subsp. californicus is not mentioned in Snelling, 1976 PDF: 1-163, the revision of Myrmecocystus].
