• Subspecies of Cardiocondyla elegans: Emery, 1922c: 125; Santschi, 1934d: 277; Menozzi, 1936b: 283; Bolton, 1995b: 132.
• Junior synonym of Cardiocondyla elegans: Radchenko, 1995g: 449.
• Junior synonym of Cardiocondyla bulgarica: Seifert, 2003a: 233; Legakis, 2011: 16; Kiran & Karaman, 2012: 17; Seifert, 2023b: 37.

Citations

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