• Status as species: Dlussky et al., 1990: 190.
• Junior synonym of Temnothorax caucasicus: Radchenko, 1994e: 154 (in key); Bolton, 1995b: 239; Radchenko, 1995h: 5.
• Junior synonym of Temnothorax nadigi: Radchenko et al., 2015: 164 (in text).

Obsolete combinations

• Leptothorax hasardaghi

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Dlussky, G. M.; Soyunov, O. S.; Zabelin, S. I. 1990. Ants of Turkmenistan. [In Russian.]. Ashkabad: Ylym Press, 273 pp. PDF
• Dlussky, G. M.; Zabelin, S. I. 1985. Ant fauna (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of the River Sumbar Basin (south-west Kopetdag). [In Russian.]. Pp. 208-246 in: Nechaevaya, N. T. (ed.) 1985. The vegetation and animal world of western Kopetdag. [In Russian.]. Ashkhabad: Ylym, 278 pp. 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
• Radchenko, A. G.; Yusupov, Z. M.; Fedoseeva, E. B. 2015. Taxonomic notes for some Caucasian Temnothorax Mayr, 1861 species, with descriptions of three new species. Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 11 (1):161-167. PDF