• [Junior secondary homonym of Temnothorax spinosus Forel, 1909k]
• Combination in Chalepoxenus: Buschinger, 1987b: 121.
• Combination in Temnothorax: Ward et al., 2015: 75.
• Status as species: Arnol'di & Dlussky, 1978: 544 (in key); Buschinger, 1987b: 118; Radchenko, 1989b: 41; Bolton, 1995b: 145.
• Replacement name: Temnothorax sentosus Ward et al., 2015

Obsolete combinations

• Chalepoxenus spinosus
• Leonomyrma spinosa

Citations

• Arnol'di, K. V. 1968b. Important additions to the myrmecofauna (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of the USSR, and descriptions of new forms. [In Russian.]. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 47:1800-1822. 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.
• Buschinger, A. 1987b. Synonymy of Leonomyrma Arnoldi 1968 with Chalepoxenus Menozzi 1922 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Psyche (Cambridge) 94:117-126. PDF
• Radchenko, A. G. 1989b. The ants of the genus Chalepoxenus (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of the USSR fauna. [In Russian.]. Vestnik Zoologii 1989(2):37-41. PDF
• Ward, P. S.; Brady, S. G.; Fisher, B. L.; Schultz, T. R. 2015. The evolution of myrmicine ants: phylogeny and biogeography of a hyperdiverse ant clade (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Systematic Entomology 40:61-81. 10.1111/syen.12090 PDF