• [Cardiocondyla elegans var. bulgarica Forel, 1892h: 461 (in text). Nomen nudum.]
• As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Emery, 1909a: 22.
• Subspecies of Cardiocondyla elegans: Dalla Torre, 1893: 70; Emery, 1922c: 125.
• Junior synonym of Cardiocondyla elegans: Radchenko, 1995g: 449
• Status as species: Agosti & Collingwood, 1987a: 56; Agosti & Collingwood, 1987b: 276 (in key); Atanassov & Dlussky, 1992: 174; Bolton, 1995b: 132; Seifert, 2003a: 233 (redescription); Petrov, 2006: 99 (in key); Lapeva-Gjonova et al., 2010: 26; Legakis, 2011: 15; Borowiec & Salata, 2012: 484; Kiran & Karaman, 2012: 17; Borowiec, 2014: 46; Bračko et al., 2014: 13; Lebas et al., 2016: 266; Salata & Borowiec, 2018c: 44; Seifert, 2023b: 37 (redescription).
• Senior synonym of Cardiocondyla elegans eleonorae: Seifert, 2003a: 233; Legakis, 2011: 16; Kiran & Karaman, 2012: 17; Seifert, 2023b: 37.

Junior synonyms

• Cardiocondyla elegans eleonorae Forel, 1911

Obsolete combinations

• Cardiocondyla elegans bulgarica

Citations

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