• Combination in Temnothorax: Bolton, 2003: 271.
• Subspecies of Temnothorax bulgaricus: Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1927d: 40.
• Status as species: Dlussky, 1962: 179; Radchenko, 1994e: 156 (in key); Bolton, 1995b: 236; Radchenko, 1995c: 20; Bolton, 2003: 271.

Obsolete combinations

• Leptothorax bulgaricus archangelskiji

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
• Dlussky, G. M. 1962. Ants of the northern slopes of the Talasskii Alatau range. [In Russian.]. Trudy Instituta Zoologii. Akademiya Nauk Kazakhskoi SSR 18:177-188. PDF
• Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, N. N. 1926b. Neue turkestanische Ameisen. Russkoe Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie 20:71-77. PDF
• Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, N. N. 1927d. Contributions to the knowledge of the myrmecology of Turkestan. II. [In Russian.]. Russkoe Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie 21:33-42. PDF
• 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