• Combination in Temnothorax: Bolton, 2003: 271.
• Status as species: Emery, 1924f: 254; Arnol'di & Dlussky, 1978: 540 (in key); Radchenko, 1994e: 153 (in key); Bolton, 1995b: 241; Radchenko, 1996c: 18; Bolton, 2003: 271; Zryanin & Zryanina, 2007: 231; Gratiashvili & Barjadze, 2008: 142; Borowiec, 2014: 183.

Obsolete combinations

• Leptothorax melnikovi

Citations

• Arnol'di, K. V.; Dlussky, G. M. 1978. Superfam. Formicoidea. 1. Fam. Formicidae - ants. [In Russian.]. Pp. 519-556 in: Medvedev, G. S. (ed.) 1978. Keys to the insects of the European part of the USSR. Vol. 3. Hymenoptera. Part 1. [In Russian.]. Opredeliteli Faune SSSR 119:3-584.
• 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
• Emery, C. 1924f ("1922"). Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [concl.]. Genera Insectorum 174C:207-397. PDF
• Gratiashvili, N.; Barjadze, S. 2008. Checklist of the ants (Formicidae Latreille, 1809) of Georgia. Proceedings of the Institute of Zoology (Tbilisi) 23:130-146. 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. 1996c. A review of the ant genus Leptothorax (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of central and eastern Palearctic. Communication 4. Group congruus. Species of uncertain position. Zoogeographical characteristics. [In Russian.]. Vestnik Zoologii 1996(1/2):16-22. PDF
• Ruzsky, M. 1905b. The ants of Russia. (Formicariae Imperii Rossici). Systematics, geography and data on the biology of Russian ants. Part I. [In Russian.]. Trudy Obshchestva Estestvoispytatelei pri Imperatorskom Kazanskom Universitete 38(4-6):1-800.
• Zryanin, V. A.; Zryanina, T. A. 2007. Novye dannye o faune murav’ev Srednego Povolzh’ya. Uspekhi Sovremennoj Biologii 127:226-240. PDF