• [Misspelled as knipovitschi by Radchenko, 1995c: 17.]
• Combination in Temnothorax: Bolton, 2003: 271.
• Subspecies of Temnothorax tuberum: Karavaiev, 1927d: 266 (in key); Karavaiev, 1934: 139 (redescription).
• Status as species: Radchenko, 1994e: 156 (in key); Bolton, 1995b: 240; Radchenko, 1995c: 17; Bolton, 2003: 271; Borowiec, 2014: 180; Radchenko, 2016: 222.
• Junior synonym of Temnothorax interruptus: Csősz et al., 2018: 109.

Obsolete combinations

• Leptothorax tuberum knipovitshi

Citations

• 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
• Csősz, S.; Salata, S.; Borowiec, L. 2018. Three Turano-European species of the Temnothorax interruptus group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) demonstrated by quantitative morphology. Myrmecological News 26:101-119. PDF
• Karavaiev, V. 1916a ("1915"). Ants from Gadjatsh district of the government of Poltava and from the Province of Ferghana. [In Russian.]. Russkoe Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie 15:496-507. PDF
• Karavaiev, V. 1927d. The ant fauna of Ukraine. [In Ukrainian.]. Zbirnyk Prats' Zoolohichnoho Muzeyu 2:1-52 [= Trudy. Ukrains'ka Akademiya Nauk. Fizichno-Matematichnoho Viddilu 4:247-296].
• Karavaiev, V. 1934. The fauna of the family Formicidae (ants) of the Ukraine. [In Ukrainian.]. Trudy Instytutu Zoolohii ta Biolohii Vseukrains'koi Akademii Nauk. Seriya 1. Pratsi z Systematyky ta Faunistyky 1934:1-164.
• Kostyuk, Yu. A. 1976. Katalog typov murav’ev kollektsii V.A. Karavaeva khranyashiesya v Institute Zoologii Akademii Nauk Ukrainskoi SSR (chast’ 1). Sbornik Trudov Zoologicheskogo Muzeya (Kiev) 36:91-106.
• 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. 1995c. A review of the ant genus Leptothorax (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of the central and eastern Palearctic. Communication 2. Groups tuberum, corticalis, affinis, clypeatus, alinae and singularis. [In Russian.]. Vestnik Zoologii 1995(2-3):14-21. PDF
• Radchenko, A. G. 2016. Ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of Ukraine. National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Kiev: I. I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, 496 pp.