• Status as species: Arnol'di & Dlussky, 1978: 542 (in key); Arakelian, 1994: 57.
• Junior synonym of Temnothorax tauricus: Radchenko, 1994e: 157 (in key); Bolton, 1995b: 243; Radchenko, 1995c: 16; Radchenko, 2016: 228.
• Junior synonym of Temnothorax unifasciatus: Csősz et al., 2024: 11 (by implication).

Obsolete combinations

• Leptothorax pithyusae

Citations

• Arakelian, G. R. 1994. Fauna of the Republic of Armenia. Hymenopterous insects. Ants (Formicidae). [In Russian.]. Erevan: Gitutium, 153 pp. PDF
• Arnol'di, K. V. 1977a. New and little known ant species of the genus Leptothorax Mayr (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in the European USSR and the Caucasus. [In Russian.]. Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie 56:198-204. PDF
• 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.
• Csősz, S.; Alicata, A.; Báthori, F.; Galkowski, C.; Schifani, E.; Yusupov, Z.; Herczeg, G.; Prebus, M. M. 2024. Integrative taxonomy reveals inflated biodiversity in the European Temnothorax unifasciatus complex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zoologica Scripta 53 (5):17 pp. [online early] 10.1111/zsc.12690 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. 1995c. A review of the ant genus Leptothorax (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of the central and eastern Palearctic. Communication 2. Groups tuberum, corticalis, affinis, clypeatus, alinae and singularis. [In Russian.]. Vestnik Zoologii 1995(2-3):14-21. PDF
• Radchenko, A. G. 2016. Ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of Ukraine. National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Kiev: I. I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, 496 pp.