• Combination in Myrmoxenus: Schulz & Sanetra, 2002: 162.
• Combination in Temnothorax: Ward et al., 2015: 75.
• Status as species: Kutter, 1973f: 289; Arnol'di & Dlussky, 1978: 544 (in key); Buschinger, 1989a: 266; Arakelian, 1994: 60; Schulz, 1994b: 432; Bolton, 1995b: 188; Buschinger, 1997d: 8; Gratiashvili & Barjadze, 2008: 141; Borowiec, 2014: 138.
• Junior synonym of Temnothorax ravouxi: Báthori et al., 2024: 37.

Obsolete combinations

• Epimyrma tamarae
• Myrmoxenus tamarae

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. 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.
• Báthori, F.; Seifert, B.; Heinze, J.; Kiran, K.; Karaman, C.; Csősz, S. 2024. Taxonomy of the Palearctic socially parasitic Temnothorax (Myrmoxenus) ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). PLoS ONE 19 (10): e0308712:1-49. 10.1371/journal.pone.0308712 PDF
• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Borowiec, L. 2014. Catalogue of ants of Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and adjacent regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 25 (1-2):1-340. PDF
• Buschinger, A. 1989a. Evolution, speciation, and inbreeding in the parasitic ant genus Epimyrma (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Journal of Evolutionary Biology 2:265-283. PDF
• Buschinger, A. 1997d. Socially parasitic formicoxenine ants from Western Europe - a review (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Pp. 1-9 in: Kipyatkov, V. E. (ed.) 1997. Proceedings of the International Colloquia on Social Insects. Volume 3-4. St. Petersburg: Russian Language Section of the IUSSI, viii + 311 pp.
• Gratiashvili, N.; Barjadze, S. 2008. Checklist of the ants (Formicidae Latreille, 1809) of Georgia. Proceedings of the Institute of Zoology (Tbilisi) 23:130-146. PDF
• Kutter, H. 1973f. Beitrag zur Lösung taxonomischer Probleme in der Gattung Epimyrma (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 46:281-289. PDF
• Schulz, A. 1994b. Epimyrma birgitae nova species, eine sozialparasitische Ameisenart (Hym.: Formicidae) auf Teneriffa (Kanarische Inseln, Spanien). Beiträge zur Entomologie 44:431-440. PDF
• Schulz, A.; Sanetra, M. 2002. Notes on the socially parasitic ants of Turkey and the synonymy of Epimyrma (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Entomofauna 23:157-172. 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