• Wesson, 1940a: 81 (m.)
• Combination in Temnothorax: Bolton, 2003: 271
• Status as species: Wesson, 1940a: 73; Wesson & Wesson, 1940: 94; Creighton, 1950a: 278; Smith, 1951c: 821; Smith, 1958c: 134; Smith, 1967a: 359; Kutter, 1968c: 204; Wilson, 1975b: 108; Smith, 1979: 1397; Buschinger, 1981: 213; Wheeler et al., 1994: 303; Bolton, 1995b: 238; Bolton, 2003: 271; Coovert, 2005: 78; Seifert et al., 2014: 73.

Obsolete combinations

• Leptothorax duloticus

Citations

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