- Temnothorax in Myrmicidae, Myrmicidae: Emery, 1877b: 81.
- Temnothorax in Myrmicinae: Mayr, 1861: 68 [Myrmicidae]; Mayr, 1865: 21 [Myrmicidae]; Emery & Forel, 1879: 459 [Myrmicidae]; Dalla Torre, 1893: 122.
- Temnothorax in Myrmicinae, Leptothoracini: Forel, 1917: 245; Emery, 1924f: 259; Donisthorpe, 1943h: 731.
- Temnothorax in Myrmicinae, Formicoxenini: Bolton, 1994: 105.
- Temnothorax as subgenus of Leptothorax: Forel, 1892j: 315; Dalla Torre, 1893: 122; Ruzsky, 1905b: 607; Wheeler, 1910a: 139; Emery, 1915e: 24; Forel, 1915d: 27; Emery, 1916a: 176; Forel, 1917: 245; Bondroit, 1918: 117; Wheeler, 1922: 679; Emery, 1924f: 259; Donisthorpe, 1943h: 731.
- Temnothorax as junior synonym of Leptothorax: Forel, 1890b: lxxii; Baroni Urbani, 1971c: 96; Brown, 1973b: 185 [provisional]; Bolton, 1982: 319; Bolton, 1994: 105.
- Temnothorax as genus: Bernard, 1967a: 185; Arnol'di & Dlussky, 1978: 543; Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 79; Atanassov & Dlussky, 1992: 125; Bolton, 2003: 270.
- Temnothorax in Myrmicinae, Crematogastrini: Ward et al., 2015: 17.
Junior synonyms
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Antillaemyrmex
Mann, 1920
Obsolete classification(s): Macromischa (Antillaemyrmex)
- Chalepoxenus Menozzi, 1923
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Croesomyrmex
Mann, 1920
Obsolete classification(s): Macromischa (Croesomyrmex)
- Dichothorax Emery, 1895
- Epimyrma Emery, 1915
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Gonepimyrma
Bernard, 1948
Obsolete classification(s): Myrmoxenus (Gonepimyrma)
- Icothorax Hamann & Klemm, 1967
- Leonomyrma Arnol'di, 1968
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Macromischa
Roger, 1863
Obsolete classification(s): Leptothorax (Macromischa), Macromischa (Macromisha), Macromischa (Macromischa)
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Myrafant
Smith, 1950
Obsolete classification(s): Leptothorax (Myrafant)
- Myrmammophilus Menozzi, 1925
- Myrmetaerus Soudek, 1925
- Myrmoxenus Ruzsky, 1902
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Protomognathus
Wheeler, 1905
Obsolete classification(s): Tomognathus (Protomognathus)
Obsolete classifications
Genus Temnothorax references
See under Leptothorax for pre-2003 references; Bolton, 2003: 270 (genus diagnosis); Radchenko, 2004: 131 (Eastern Palaearctic species key); Radchenko, 2005b: 193 (North Korea species key); Seifert, 2007: 120 (North and Central Europe species key); Terayama, 2009: 181 (Taiwan species key); Zhou et al., 2010: 9 (China species key) ; Czechowski et al., 2012: 366 (Poland species key); Bharti et al., 2012: 334 (India species key); Snelling et al., 2014: 80 (California species key);Salata & Borowiec, 2015c: 129 (eastern Mediterranean species key); Bharti et al., 2016: 748 (Indian species key); Csősz et al., 2015: 1 (nylanderi-group key, taxonomic synopsis); Galkowski & Lebas, 2016: 80 (black species key); Sharaf et al., 2017: 1 (Arabian Peninsula species key); Radchenko et al., 2015 161 (Caucasian species); Catarineu et al., 2017: 143: (Iberian laurae group species key); Cantone, 2017: 241 (brief male diagnosis); Galkowski & Cagniant, 2017: 190 (angustulus group, angustulus species group key); Prebus, 2017: 250 (global phylogeny); Csősz et al., 2018: 106 (Turano-European Temnothorax interruptus species group key); Salata et al., 2018: 801 (Cretan species key); Salata & Borowiec, 2019b: 91 (key to Greek species groups); Salata & Borowiec, 2019b: 121 (key to aveli group from Greece); Sharaf & Aldawood, 2019b: 607 (Arabian species key); Fernández & Serna, 2019: 825 (Colombia species); Rasheed et al., 2020: 380 (Pakistan species key); Yusupov et al., 2020: 355 (Indian species key); Yusupov et al., 2020: 351 (Pakistan species key); Prebus, 2021b: 3 (Temnothorax salvini clade phylogeny, divergence dates, biogeography, species delimitation), 25 (key to principal clades of Temnothorax (workers)), 33 (Temnothorax salvini clade diagnosis (workers)), 34 (key to Temnothorax salvini clade species (workers)), 67 key to Temnothorax salvini clade species groups (reproductive caste forewings)), 68 (Temnothorax salvini clade synopsis, including species groups), 74 (Temnothorax acuminatus group overview), 85 (Temnothorax acutispinosus group overview), 89 (Temnothorax altinodus group overview), 93 (Temnothorax annexus group overview), 121 (Temnothorax augusti group overview), 142 (Temnothorax casanovai group overview), 148 (Temnothorax fuscatus group overview), 174 (Temnothorax goniops group overview), 200 (Temnothorax misomoschus group overview), 205 (Temnothorax pastinifer group overview), 236 (Temnothorax pergandei group overview), 254 (Temnothorax pilicornis group overview), 258 (Temnothorax pulchellus group overview), 345 (Temnothorax rugosus group overview), 358 (Temnothorax salvini group overview), 421 (Temnothorax subditivus group overview), 441 (Temnothorax tenuisculptus group overview), 447 (Temnothorax terrigena group overview); González, 2021: 155 (key to Iberian Temnothorax sordidulus species-complex workers); Salata & Borowiec, 2022: 139 (review of Temnothorax anodontoides species-group from Greece), 143 (Temnothorax anodontoides species-group key for Greek species, definition of group); Schifani et al., 2022: 171 (worker-based key to Sicilian species with light-colored pigmentation and concolorous antennal clubs).
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