• Mayr, 1886d: 453 (q.); Mackay, 2000: 338 (m.)
• Combination in Leptothorax (Myrafant): Smith, 1950a: 30.
• Combination in Temnothorax: Bolton, 2003: 271.
• Status as species: Mayr, 1886d: 451 (in key); Cresson, 1887: 261; Dalla Torre, 1893: 124; Emery, 1895d: 320; Wheeler, 1903d: 239; Wheeler, 1905j: 385; Wheeler, 1906g: 9; Wheeler, 1908i: 621; Wheeler, 1910a: 567; Wheeler, 1913d: 114; Wheeler, 1916r: 588; Wheeler, 1917k: 461; Emery, 1924f: 258; Dennis, 1938: 289; Wing, 1939: 162; Wesson & Wesson, 1940: 96; Buren, 1944a: 286; Creighton, 1950a: 263; Smith, 1951c: 817; Smith, 1958c: 131; Carter, 1962a: 6 (in list); Smith, 1967a: 358; Hunt & Snelling, 1975: 22; Smith, 1979: 1392; DuBois & LaBerge, 1988: 138; Deyrup et al., 1989: 97; Wheeler et al., 1994: 302; Bolton, 1995b: 237; Mackay, 2000: 337 (redescription); Mackay & Mackay, 2002: 122; Bolton, 2003: 271; Deyrup, 2003: 45; Deyrup & Cover, 2004a: 58 (in key); Coovert, 2005: 72; MacGown & Forster, 2005: 72; Ellison et al., 2012: 327; Deyrup, 2017: 144.
• Senior synonym of Temnothorax gallarum: Mayr, 1886d: 453; Dalla Torre, 1893: 124; Wheeler, 1903d: 239; Emery, 1924f: 258; Creighton, 1950a: 264; Smith, 1951c: 817; Smith, 1979: 1392; Bolton, 1995b: 237; Mackay, 2000: 337.

Junior synonyms

• Temnothorax gallarum (Patton, 1879)
  Obsolete combination(s): Stenamma gallarum

Obsolete combinations

• Leptothorax curvispinosus

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