Cardiocondyla elegans var. ulianini Emery, 1889b: 441 (w.) "TURKESTAN". Palearctic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: lectotype worker (by designation of Seifert, 2003a: 229). Primary type locality: “Turkestan”: (no further data) (A.P. Fedchenko). Primary type depository: MSNG. Secondary type information: Secondary type material: 2 paralectotype workers). Secondary type locality: same as for lectotype. Secondary type depositories: MHNG, MSNG. Type notes: 1) Radchenko, 2016: 235, implies that the type locality is Uzbekistan. 2) Seifert, 2023b: 32, says “type locality is unknown and should be somewhere in Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan or Tajikistan”.

Infrasubspecies

• C. e. u. clarior Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1927