• Combination in Aphaenogaster (Attomyrma): Emery, 1921c: 59
• Subspecies of Aphaenogaster smythiesii: Emery, 1908d: 332; Emery, 1921c: 59.
• Status as species: Arnol'di, 1948a: 211 (in list); Arakelian, 1994: 31; Bolton, 1995b: 70; Gratiashvili & Barjadze, 2008: 137; Paknia et al., 2008: 152; Kiran et al., 2013: 49 (in key); Borowiec, 2014: 14; Zięcina et al., 2024: 240; Salata et al., 2024: 3 (redescription).

Obsolete combinations

• Aphaenogaster subterranea kurdica

Citations

• Arakelian, G. R. 1994. Fauna of the Republic of Armenia. Hymenopterous insects. Ants (Formicidae). [In Russian.]. Erevan: Gitutium, 153 pp. PDF
• Arnol'di, K. V. 1948a. Ants of Talysh and the Diabar depression. Their importance for the characterization of communities of terrestrial invertebrates and for historical analysis of the fauna. [In Russian.]. Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta. Akademiya Nauk SSSR 7(2):206-262. PDF
• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Borowiec, L. 2014. Catalogue of ants of Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and adjacent regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 25 (1-2):1-340. PDF
• Emery, C. 1908d. Beiträge zur Monographie der Formiciden des paläarktischen Faunengebietes. (Hym.) (Fortsetzung.) III. Die mit Aphaenogaster verwandte Gattungengruppe. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 1908:305-338. PDF
• Emery, C. 1921c. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [part]. Genera Insectorum 174A:1-94 + 7 plates. PDF
• Gratiashvili, N.; Barjadze, S. 2008. Checklist of the ants (Formicidae Latreille, 1809) of Georgia. Proceedings of the Institute of Zoology (Tbilisi) 23:130-146. PDF
• Kiran, K.; Alipanah, H.; Paknia, O. 2013. A new species of the ant genus Aphaenogaster Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Iran. Asian Myrmecology 5:45-51. PDF
• Paknia, O.; Radchenko, A.; Alipanah, H.; Pfeiffer, M. 2008. A preliminary checklist of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Iran. Myrmecological News 11:151-159. PDF
• Ruzsky, M. 1905b. The ants of Russia. (Formicariae Imperii Rossici). Systematics, geography and data on the biology of Russian ants. Part I. [In Russian.]. Trudy Obshchestva Estestvoispytatelei pri Imperatorskom Kazanskom Universitete 38(4-6):1-800.
• Salata, S.; Yazdanian, M.; Jafari, F.; Afshari, A.; Borowiec, L. 2024. Redescription of Aphaenogaster kurdica Ruzsky, 1905 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae). Annals of the Upper Silesian Museum in Bytom, Entomology 33 (online 006):1-14. 10.5281/zenodo.13309977 PDF
• Zięcina, D.; Menchetti, M.; Borowiec, L.; Bračko, G.; Lapeva-Gjonova, A.; Vila, R.; Salata, S. 2024. Taxonomic revision of the Aphaenogaster subterranea species group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Annales Zoologici (Warsaw) 74 (2):237-282. 10.3161/00034541ANZ2024.74.2.002 PDF