• Borowiec & Salata, 2022: 141 (s.q.m.)
• Combination in Cataglyphis: Müller, 1923b: 150.
• Combination in Cataglyphis (Monocombus): Santschi, 1929b: 35.
• Subspecies of Cataglyphis cursor: Dalla Torre, 1893: 217; Emery, 1906f: 48; Emery, 1925d: 263; Santschi, 1929b: 35.
• Junior synonym of Cataglyphis aenescens: Borowiec & Salata, 2013: 384 (in text).
• Status as species: Agosti & Collingwood, 1987a: 59; Agosti & Collingwood, 1987b: 285 (in key); Agosti, 1990b: 1482; Bolton, 1995b: 135; Petrov, 2006: 110 (in key); Legakis, 2011: 34; Borowiec & Salata, 2012: 486; Borowiec & Salata, 2021: 6; Borowiec & Salata, 2022: 140 (redescription); Borowiec & Salata, 2025a: 438.

Obsolete combinations

• Cataglyphis cursor hellenica
• Myrmecocystus cursor hellenicus

Citations

• Agosti, D. 1990b. Review and reclassification of Cataglyphis (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Journal of Natural History 24:1457-1505. PDF
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• Agosti, D.; Collingwood, C. A. 1987b. A provisional list of the Balkan ants (Hym. Formicidae) with a key to the worker caste. II. Key to the worker caste, including the European species without the Iberian. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 60:261-293. PDF
• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Borowiec, L.; Salata, S. 2012. Ants of Greece – checklist, comments and new faunistic data (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 23 (4):461-563. PDF
• Borowiec, L.; Salata, S. 2013. Ants of Greece – additions and corrections (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 24 (3-4):335-401. PDF
• Borowiec, L.; Salata, S. 2021. Notes on ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Western Greece. Annals of the Upper Silesian Museum, Entomology 005:1-23. 10.5281/zenodo.5571258 PDF
• Borowiec, L.; Salata, S. 2022. A monographic review of ants of Greece (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Vol. 1. Introduction and review of all subfamilies except the subfamily Myrmicinae. Part 1: text. Bytom: Natural History Monographs of the Upper Silesian Museum, 1-297. PDF
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• Dalla Torre, K. W. 1893. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp. PDF
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