• Combination in Leptothorax (Mychothorax): Wheeler, 1917a: 511
• Subspecies of Leptothorax muscorum: Wheeler, 1910a: 566; Wheeler, 1917a: 511; Emery, 1924f: 262; Smith, 1951c: 822.
• Junior synonym of Leptothorax canadensis yankee: Creighton, 1950a: 277
• Junior synonym of Leptothorax muscorum: Brown, 1955a: 47; Smith, 1958c: 134; Smith, 1979: 1396; Bolton, 1995b: 241; Radchenko, 2016: 210.
• Junior synonym of Leptothorax canadensis: Schär et al., 2018: 6

Citations

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