• Forel, 1901j: 378 (q.); Forel, 1904d: 6 (em.)
• Subspecies of Cardiocondyla nuda: Forel, 1890b: lxxv; Emery, 1891c: 13; Dalla Torre, 1893: 71; Forel, 1901c: 13; Forel, 1901j: 378; Forel, 1904d: 6; Emery, 1909a: 25; Forel, 1911h: 276; Forel, 1911l: 457; Karavaiev, 1911b: 8; Crawley, 1920a: 165; Emery, 1922c: 126; Menozzi, 1927g: 379; Menozzi, 1932c: 94; Menozzi, 1933b: 58; Menozzi, 1934: 154; Finzi, 1936: 171; Teranishi, 1940: 35; Donisthorpe, 1942a: 28; Bernard, 1948: 141; Weber, 1952c: 17; Bernard, 1953a: 149; Kugler, 1984: 11; Mei, 1995: 764; Poldi et al., 1995: 4.
• Status as species: Ortiz & Tinaut, 1987: 32; Bolton, 1995b: 132; Espadaler, 1997g: 29; Seifert, 2003a: 248 (redescription); Ward, 2005: 65; Cagniant, 2006: 198; Gómez & Espadaler, 2006: 226; Wetterer et al., 2007: 31; Wetterer et al., 2007: 9; Paknia et al., 2008: 153; Vonshak & Ionescu-Hirsch, 2010: 41; Legakis, 2011: 16; Collingwood et al., 2011: 422; Borowiec & Salata, 2012: 484; Kiran & Karaman, 2012: 17; Wetterer, 2012f: 985; Borowiec, 2014: 47; Bharti et al., 2016: 34; Lebas et al., 2016: 266; Wetterer et al., 2016: 10; Sharaf et al., 2017: 18; Seifert et al., 2017: 338; Deyrup, 2017: 55; Salata & Borowiec, 2018c: 44; Sharaf et al., 2018: 18; Rasheed et al., 2019: 431; Borowiec & Salata, 2020: 5; Gómez et al., 2024: 102.
• Senior synonym of Cardiocondyla caparica: Henin et al., 2003: 377; Seifert et al., 2017: 338.
• Senior synonym of Cardiocondyla ectopia: Seifert, 2003a: 248; Seifert et al., 2017: 338.
• Senior synonym of Cardiocondyla emeryi nitida: Bernard, 1956c: 305; Bolton, 1995b: 132.

Junior synonyms

• Cardiocondyla caparica (Henin et al., 2001)
  Obsolete combination(s): Leptothorax caparica
• Cardiocondyla ectopia Snelling, 1974
• Cardiocondyla emeryi nitida Bernard, 1948

Obsolete combinations

• Cardiocondyla nuda mauritanica

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