• Combination in Temnothorax: Bolton, 2003: 272
• Status as species: Smith, 1958c: 133; Carter, 1962a: 7 (in list); Smith, 1967a: 359; Smith, 1979: 1395; Bolton, 1995b: 246; Mackay, 2000: 419 (redescription); Bolton, 2003: 272; Deyrup & Cover, 2004a: 56 (in key); MacGown & Forster, 2005: 72; Deyrup, 2017: 149.

Obsolete combinations

• Leptothorax tuscaloosae

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
• Carter, W. G. 1962a. Ants of the North Carolina Piedmont. Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society 78:1-18. PDF
• Deyrup, M. 2017. Ants of Florida. Identification and natural history. Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press (Taylor & Francis group), 423 pp.
• Deyrup, M.; Cover, S. 2004a. A new species of the ant genus Leptothorax from Florida, with a key to the Leptothorax of the southeast (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Florida Entomologist 87:51-59. PDF
• MacGown, J. A.; Forster, J. A. 2005. A preliminary list of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Alabama, U. S. A. Entomological News 116:61-74. PDF
• Mackay, W. P. 2000. A review of the New World ants of the subgenus Myrafant, (genus Leptothorax) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Sociobiology 36:265-444. PDF
• Smith, D. R. 1979. Superfamily Formicoidea. Pp. 1323-1467 in: Krombein, K. V.; Hurd, P. D.; Smith, D. R.; Burks, B. D. (eds.) 1979. Catalog of Hymenoptera in America north of Mexico. Volume 2. Apocrita (Aculeata). Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. i-xvi, 1199-2209.
• Smith, M. R. 1958c. Family Formicidae. Pp. 108-162 in: Krombein, K. V. (ed.) 1958. Hymenoptera of America north of Mexico. Synoptic catalogue. First supplement. United States Department of Agriculture. Agriculture Monograph 2(suppl. 1):1-305. PDF
• Smith, M. R. 1967a. Family Formicidae. Pp. 343-374 in: Krombein, K. V.; Burks, B. D. (eds.) 1967. Hymenoptera of America north of Mexico. Synoptic catalog. Second supplement. United States Department of Agriculture. Agriculture Monograph 2(suppl. 2):1-584. PDF
• Wilson, E. O. 1951b ("1950"). A new Leptothorax from Alabama (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Psyche (Cambridge) 57:128-130. PDF