• Combination in Leptothorax (Myrafant): Smith, 1951c: 818.
• Combination in Temnothorax: Bolton, 2003: 271
• Subspecies of Temnothorax tricarinatus: Creighton, 1950a: 273; Smith, 1952c: 100; Cole, 1953e: 28; Cole, 1954d: 240; Smith, 1958c: 133; Smith, 1967a: 359; Hunt & Snelling, 1975: 22; Smith, 1979: 1395; Bolton, 1995b: 241.
• Status as species: Wheeler, 1906i: 341; Wheeler, 1910a: 567; Wheeler, 1917a: 507; Emery, 1924f: 258; Cole, 1937b: 136; Smith, 1951c: 818; Mackay, 2000: 374 (redescription); Mackay & Mackay, 2002: 130; Bolton, 2003: 271; Ward, 2005: 68; Snelling et al., 2014: 55.

Obsolete combinations

• Leptothorax neomexicanus

Citations

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