• Combination in Temnothorax: Bolton, 2003: 271.
• Status as species: Radchenko, 1994e: 153 (in key); Bolton, 1995b: 235; Radchenko, 1995c: 21; Radchenko, 2004: 120.

Obsolete combinations

• Leptothorax alinae

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and classification of Formicidae. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 71:1-370. PDF
• Radchenko, A. 2004. A review of the ant genera Leptothorax Mayr and Temnothorax Mayr (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of the eastern Palaearctic. Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 50:109-137. PDF
• Radchenko, A. G. 1994c ("1993"). New species of ants of the genus Leptothorax (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from southern and eastern Palearctic. [In Russian.]. Zhurnal Ukrains'koho Entomolohichnoho Tovarystva 1(2):23-34.
• Radchenko, A. G. 1994e. Identification table for ants of the genus Leptothorax (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from central and eastern Palearctic. [In Russian.]. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 73(7-8):146-158. PDF
• Radchenko, A. G. 1995c. A review of the ant genus Leptothorax (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of the central and eastern Palearctic. Communication 2. Groups tuberum, corticalis, affinis, clypeatus, alinae and singularis. [In Russian.]. Vestnik Zoologii 1995(2-3):14-21. PDF