• Combination in Temnothorax: Bernard, 1967a: 186.
• Status as species: Bernard, 1967a: 186; Kutter, 1968c: 204.
• Junior synonym of Temnothorax recedens: Dlussky & Soyunov, 1988: 31; Bolton, 1995b: 238; Casevitz-Weulersse & Galkowski, 2009: 496; Radchenko, 2016: 226; Salata et al., 2018: 793.

Obsolete combinations

• Leptothorax ergatogyna

Citations

• Bernard, F. 1950a ("1946"). Notes sur les fourmis de France. II. Peuplement des montagnes méridionales. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 115:1-36. PDF
• Bernard, F. 1967a ("1968"). Faune de l'Europe et du Bassin Méditerranéen. 3. Les fourmis (Hymenoptera Formicidae) d'Europe occidentale et septentrionale. Paris: Masson, 411 pp. PDF
• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Casevitz-Weulersse, J.; Galkowski, C. 2009. Liste actualisée des fourmis de France (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France 114:475-510. PDF
• Dlussky, G. M.; Soyunov, O. S. 1988. Ants of the genus Temnothorax Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of the USSR. [In Russian.]. Izvestiya Akademii Nauk Turkmenskoi SSR. Seriya Biologicheskikh Nauk 1988(4):29-37. PDF
• Kutter, H. 1968c ("1967"). Liste sozialparasitischer Ameisen. Archives. Institut Grand-Ducal de Luxembourg (n.s.)33:201-210.
• Radchenko, A. G. 2016. Ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of Ukraine. National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Kiev: I. I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, 496 pp.
• 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