• Neotype designation: Radchenko, 1995g: 450.
• Status as species: Emery, 1909a: 25; Emery, 1922c: 125; Bernard, 1956c: 302 (in key); Agosti & Collingwood, 1987a: 56; Agosti & Collingwood, 1987b: 276 (in key); Arakelian, 1994: 42; Bolton, 1995b: 132; Radchenko, 1995g: 450; Petrov, 2006: 99 (in key) (error).
• Junior synonym of Cardiocondyla stambuloffii: Seifert, 2003a: 262; Gratiashvili & Barjadze, 2008: 138; Radchenko, 2016: 237; Seifert, 2023b: 47; Borowiec & Salata, 2025a: 125.

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