• Wheeler & Wheeler, 1955b: 21 (l.)
• Combination in Leptothorax (Mychothorax): Ruzsky, 1904a: 288; Emery, 1924f: 261.
• Combination in Leptothorax (Leptothorax): Wheeler & Wheeler, 1955b: 21.
• Subspecies of Leptothorax acervorum: André, 1887: 295; Dalla Torre, 1893: 123; Wheeler, 1903d: 225; Wheeler, 1906g: 8; Wheeler, 1908i: 621; Wheeler, 1910a: 566; Forel, 1914c: 617; Wheeler, 1916r: 588; Wheeler, 1917a: 511; Wheeler, 1917e: 18; Emery, 1924f: 261; Cole, 1936a: 36; Wing, 1939: 162; Cole, 1942: 369; Wheeler & Wheeler, 1944: 247; Buren, 1944a: 288; Smith, 1951c: 820.
• Junior synonym of Leptothorax muscorum: Brown, 1955a: 47; Smith, 1958c: 134; Francoeur & Béique, 1966a: 142; Smith, 1979: 1397; MacKay et al., 1988: 90; Bolton, 1995b: 237; Mackay, 2000: 403; Coovert, 2005: 79; Radchenko, 2016: 210.
• Status as species: Emery, 1895d: 318; Wheeler, W.M. in Viereck, 1903: 73; Creighton, 1950a: 274; Cole, 1953e: 27; Cole, 1954d: 240; Schär et al., 2018: 6.
• Senior synonym of Leptothorax canadensis kincaidi: Schär et al., 2018: 6
• Senior synonym of Leptothorax canadensis obscurus: Schär et al., 2018: 6
• Senior synonym of Leptothorax muscorum septentrionalis: Schär et al., 2018: 6
• Senior synonym of Leptothorax muscorum sordidus: Schär et al., 2018: 6
• Senior synonym of Leptothorax canadensis yankee: Schär et al., 2018: 6
• Material of the unavailable name Leptothorax acervorum canadensis convivialis referred here by Creighton, 1950a: 276; Smith, 1958c: 134; Schär et al., 2018: 6 (by implication).

Junior synonyms

• Leptothorax canadensis kincaidi Pergande, 1900
  Obsolete combination(s): Leptothorax yankee kincaidi
• Leptothorax canadensis obscurus Viereck, 1903
• Leptothorax canadensis yankee Emery, 1895
  Obsolete combination(s): Leptothorax yankee
• Leptothorax muscorum septentrionalis Wheeler, 1917
• Leptothorax muscorum sordidus Wheeler, 1903

Obsolete combinations

• Leptothorax acervorum canadensis

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