• Combination in Temnothorax: Bolton, 2003: 271
• Status as species: Radchenko, 1994e: 152 (in key); Bolton, 1995b: 242; Radchenko, 1995a: 28; Bolton, 2003: 271.

Obsolete combinations

• Leptothorax pallidus

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
• Collingwood, C. A. 1961a ("1960"). The third Danish Expedition to Central Asia. Zoological Results 27. Formicidae (Insecta) from Afghanistan. Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk Naturhistorisk Forening 123:51-79. 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. 1995a ("1994"). A review of the ant genus Leptothorax (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of the central and eastern Palearctic. Communication 1. Subdivision into groups. Groups acervorum and bulgaricus. [In Russian.]. Vestnik Zoologii 1994(6):22-28.