• Combination in Temnothorax: Bolton, 2003: 271
• Status as species: Radchenko, 1994e: 150 (in key); Bolton, 1995b: 239; Radchenko, 1995h: 9; Bolton, 2003: 271; Paknia et al., 2008: 155; Borowiec, 2014: 179.

Obsolete combinations

• Leptothorax iranicus

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
• Borowiec, L. 2014. Catalogue of ants of Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and adjacent regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 25 (1-2):1-340. PDF
• Paknia, O.; Radchenko, A.; Alipanah, H.; Pfeiffer, M. 2008. A preliminary checklist of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Iran. Myrmecological News 11:151-159. 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. 1995h. A review of the ant genus Leptothorax (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of the central and eastern Palearctic. Communication 3. Groups nylanderi, korbi, nassonovi, and susamyri. [In Russian.]. Vestnik Zoologii 1995(4):3-11. PDF