• Status as species: Menozzi, 1931c: 47 (redescription); Bernard, 1945b: 134; Bernard, 1950a: 19; Bernard, 1967a: 219 (redescription); Kutter, 1968c: 204; Collingwood & Yarrow, 1969: 73; Cagniant, 1970a: 428; Kutter, 1973f: 285; Buschinger, 1981: 213.
• Junior synonym of Temnothorax kraussei Emery, 1915a: Buschinger et al., 1987: 274; Buschinger, 1989a: 267; Mei, 1992b: 148; Schulz, 1994b: 432; Bolton, 1995b: 188; Buschinger, 1997d: 8; Casevitz-Weulersse & Galkowski, 2009: 491; Salata et al., 2018: 784; Báthori et al., 2024: 30; Borowiec & Salata, 2025a: 345.

Obsolete combinations

• Epimyrma vandeli

Citations

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