• [Misspelled as Rbalcanica by Santschi, 1926f: 287.]
• Subspecies of Temnothorax rottenbergii: Emery, 1924f: 252; Santschi, 1926f: 287.
• Junior synonym of Temnothorax semiruber: Agosti & Collingwood, 1987a: 56; Bolton, 1995b: 236; Legakis, 2011: 17; Salata et al., 2018: 796.

Obsolete combinations

• Leptothorax rottenbergi balcanica

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
• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Emery, C. 1924f ("1922"). Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [concl.]. Genera Insectorum 174C:207-397. PDF
• Legakis, A. 2011. Annotated list of the ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of Greece. Hellenic Zoological Archives 7:1-55. 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. 1909c. Leptothorax rottenbergi et espèces voisines. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 17:459-482. PDF
• Santschi, F. 1926f. Travaux scientifiques de l'Armée d'Orient (1916-1918). Fourmis. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle 32:286-293. PDF