• Combination in Temnothorax: Bolton, 2003: 271
• Status as species: Arakelian, 1994: 54; Radchenko, 1994e: 155 (in key); Bolton, 1995b: 236; Radchenko, 1995h: 7; Bolton, 2003: 271; Paknia et al., 2010: 35; Borowiec, 2014: 172.

Obsolete combinations

• Leptothorax anodonta

Citations

• Arakelian, G. R. 1994. Fauna of the Republic of Armenia. Hymenopterous insects. Ants (Formicidae). [In Russian.]. Erevan: Gitutium, 153 pp. PDF
• Arnol'di, K. V. 1977a. New and little known ant species of the genus Leptothorax Mayr (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in the European USSR and the Caucasus. [In Russian.]. Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie 56:198-204. PDF
• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and classification of Formicidae. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 71:1-370. PDF
• Borowiec, L. 2014. Catalogue of ants of Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and adjacent regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 25 (1-2):1-340. PDF
• Paknia, O.; Radchenko, A.; Pfeiffer, M. 2010. New records of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Iran. Asian Myrmecology 3:29-38. PDF
• Radchenko, A. G. 1994e. Identification table for ants of the genus Leptothorax (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from central and eastern Palearctic. [In Russian.]. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 73(7-8):146-158. PDF
• Radchenko, A. G. 1995h. A review of the ant genus Leptothorax (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of the central and eastern Palearctic. Communication 3. Groups nylanderi, korbi, nassonovi, and susamyri. [In Russian.]. Vestnik Zoologii 1995(4):3-11. PDF