• Combination in Temnothorax: Bolton, 2003: 271
• Status as species: Baroni Urbani, 1971c: 111; Schembri & Collingwood, 1981: 433; Agosti & Collingwood, 1987b: 275 (in key); Bolton, 1995b: 240; Poldi et al., 1995: 5; Bolton, 2003: 271; Petrov, 2006: 98 (in key); Kiran & Karaman, 2012: 25; Borowiec, 2014: 181; Lebas et al., 2016: 364.
• Senior synonym of Temnothorax splendidiceps: Borowiec, 2014: 181.

Junior synonyms

• Temnothorax splendidiceps (Baroni Urbani, 1968)
  Obsolete combination(s): Leptothorax niger splendidiceps

Obsolete combinations

• Leptothorax niger laestrygon

Citations

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• Baroni Urbani, C. 1971c. Catalogo delle specie di Formicidae d'Italia (Studi sulla mirmecofauna d'Italia X). Memorie della Società Entomologica Italiana 50:5-287. 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
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• Petrov, I. 2006. The ants of Serbia and Montenegro. [In Serbian.]. Posebna Izdanja. Srpska Akademija Nauka i Umetnosti 656:1-136. PDF
• Poldi, B.; Mei, M.; Rigato, F. 1995 ("1994"). Hymenoptera Formicidae. Checklist delle Specie della Fauna Italiana 102:1-10.
• Santschi, F. 1931a. Inventa entomologica itineris Hispanici et Maroccani, quod a. 1926 fecerunt Harald et Håkan Lindberg. Fourmis du Bassin Méditerranéen occidental et du Maroc récoltées par MM. Lindberg. Commentationes Biologicae 3(14):1-13.
• Schembri, S. P.; Collingwood, C. A. 1981. A revision of the myrmecofauna of the Maltese Islands (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale "Giacomo Doria" 83:417-442. PDF