• Wheeler, 1906h: 317 (q.); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1955b: 24 (l.); Imai & Kubota, 1972: 197 (k.)
• Combination in Temnothorax: Bolton, 2003: 271
• Status as species: Dalla Torre, 1893: 123; Wheeler, 1906h: 316 (redescription); Yano, 1910a: 420; Emery, 1924f: 253; Wheeler, 1929g: 7; Azuma, 1950a: 35; Azuma, 1951: 87; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 110; Azuma, 1953: 3; Collingwood, 1976a: 303; Azuma, 1977a: 114; Onoyama, 1980a: 197; Ogata, 1991b: 96; Morisita et al., 1992: 29; Radchenko, 1994e: 150 (in key); Bolton, 1995b: 237; Radchenko, 1996c: 16; Terayama & Onoyama, 1999: 83 (redescription); Bolton, 2003: 271; Imai et al., 2003: 157; Lyu & Cho, 2003: 271; Radchenko, 2004: 121; Radchenko, 2005b: 148; Zhou et al., 2010: 10 (in key); Guénard & Dunn, 2012: 54.

Obsolete combinations

• Leptothorax congruus

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