• Collingwood, 1961a: 67 (m.); Collingwood, 1962c: 222 (q.)
• Status as species: Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1928a: 14; Collingwood, 1961a: 67; Collingwood, 1961c: 289; Collingwood, 1962c: 222.
• Junior synonym of Cataglyphis emeryi: Dlussky et al., 1990: 151; Bolton, 1995b: 135; Radchenko, 1997e: 439.

Obsolete combinations

• Proformica deserta

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Collingwood, C. A. 1961a ("1960"). The third Danish Expedition to Central Asia. Zoological Results 27. Formicidae (Insecta) from Afghanistan. Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk Naturhistorisk Forening 123:51-79. PDF
• Collingwood, C. A. 1961c. Ergebnisse der Deutschen Afghanistan-Expedition 1956 der Landessammlungen für Naturkunde Karlsruhe. Formicidae (Hymenoptera Aculeata). Beiträge zur Naturkundlichen Forschung in Südwestdeutschland 19:289-290. PDF
• Collingwood, C. A. 1962c. Some ants (Hym. Formicidae) from north-east Asia. Entomologisk Tidskrift 83:215-230. PDF
• 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. 1926b. Neue turkestanische Ameisen. Russkoe Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie 20:71-77. PDF
• Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, N. N. 1928a. Beiträge zur Ameisenfauna Mittelasiens. I. Die Gattung Proformica, Ruzsky 1903. Zoologischer Anzeiger 75:7-23. PDF
• Radchenko, A. G. 1997e. Review of ants of the genus Cataglyphis Foerster (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of Asia. [In Russian.]. Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie 76:424-442. PDF