• Lectotype designation: Seifert, 2023b: 52 (redundant).
• Lectotype designation: Seifert, 2003a: 268.
• Subspecies of Cardiocondyla elegans: Tarbinsky, 1976: 73.
• Junior synonym of Cardiocondyla koshewnikovi: Dlussky et al., 1990: 195; Bolton, 1995b: 132; Radchenko, 1995g: 450.
• Status as species: Seifert, 2003a: 268 (redescription); Schultz et al., 2006: 206; Seifert, 2023b: 52 (redescription).

Obsolete combinations

• Cardiocondyla elegans gibbosa

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Dlussky, G. M.; Soyunov, O. S.; Zabelin, S. I. 1990. Ants of Turkmenistan. [In Russian.]. Ashkabad: Ylym Press, 273 pp. PDF
• Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, N. N. 1927d. Contributions to the knowledge of the myrmecology of Turkestan. II. [In Russian.]. Russkoe Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie 21:33-42. PDF
• Radchenko, A. G. 1995g. Palearctic ants of the genus Cardiocondyla (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). [In Russian.]. Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie 74:447-455. PDF
• Schultz, R.; Radchenko, A.; Seifert, B. 2006. A critical checklist of the ants of Kyrgyzstan (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Myrmecologische Nachrichten 8:201-207. PDF
• Seifert, B. 2003a. The ant genus Cardiocondyla (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Formicidae) - a taxonomic revision of the C. elegans, C. bulgarica, C. batesii, C. nuda, C. shuckardi, C. stambuloffii, C. wroughtonii, C. emeryi, and C. minutior species groups. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien. B, Botanik, Zoologie 104:203-338. PDF
• Seifert, B. 2023b. A revision of the Palaearctic species of the ant genus Cardiocondyla Emery 1869 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 5274 (1):1-64. 10.11646/zootaxa.5274.1.1 PDF
• Tarbinsky, Y. S. 1976. The ants of Kirghizia. [In Russian.]. Frunze: Ilim, 217 pp. PDF