• Combination in Temnothorax: Bolton, 2003: 271
• Status as species: Bolton, 1995b: 236; Bolton, 2003: 271; Borowiec, 2014: 172.

Obsolete combinations

• Leptothorax arcanus

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
• Borowiec, L. 2014. Catalogue of ants of Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and adjacent regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 25 (1-2):1-340. PDF
• Kutter, H. 1973c ("1972"). Leptothorax arcanus n. sp.(?) - eine neue und rätselhafte Schmalbrustameise. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 45:327-328. PDF