• Menozzi, 1936b: 286 (q.l.).
• As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Menozzi, 1936b: 285.
• Declared as unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Agosti & Collingwood, 1987a: 61; Legakis, 2011: 18.
• Material referred to Temnothorax semiruber by Salata et al., 2018: 796.

Citations

• Agosti, D.; Collingwood, C. A. 1987a. A provisional list of the Balkan ants (Hym. Formicidae) and a key to the worker caste. I. Synonymic list. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 60:51-62. PDF
• Legakis, A. 2011. Annotated list of the ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of Greece. Hellenic Zoological Archives 7:1-55. PDF
• Menozzi, C. 1936b. Nuovi contributi alla conoscenza della fauna delle Isole italiane dell'Egeo. VI. Hymenoptera - Formicidae. Bollettino del Laboratorio di Zoologia Generale e Agraria della Reale Scuola Superiore d'Agricoltura. Portici 29:262-311. PDF
• Salata, S.; Borowiec, L.; Trichas, A. 2018. Taxonomic revision of the Cretan fauna of the genus Temnothorax Mayr, 1861 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with notes on the endemism of ant fauna of Crete. Annales Zoologici (Warsaw) 68 (4):769-808. 10.3161/00034541ANZ2018.68.4.004 PDF
• Santschi, F. 1921a. Notes sur les fourmis paléarctiques. II. Fourmis d'Asie Mineure récoltées par M. H. Gadeau de Kerville. Boletín de la Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural 21:110-116. PDF