• Bernard, 1967a: 209 (q.)
• Combination in Temnothorax: Bolton, 2003: 271
• Status as species: Emery, 1924f: 254; Bernard, 1956a: 162; Baroni Urbani, 1962: 131; Bernard, 1967a: 209 (redescription); Collingwood & Yarrow, 1969: 72; Baroni Urbani, 1971c: 115; Collingwood, 1978: 85 (in key); Agosti & Collingwood, 1987b: 275 (in key); Bolton, 1995b: 241; Poldi et al., 1995: 5; Bolton, 2003: 271; Petrov, 2006: 97 (in key).
• Junior synonym of Temnothorax racovitzai: Casevitz-Weulersse & Galkowski, 2009: 496; Seifert et al., 2014: 51

Obsolete combinations

• Leptothorax massiliensis

Citations

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• Seifert, B.; Csősz, S.; Schulz, A. 2014. NC-Clustering demonstrates heterospecificity of the cryptic ant species Temnothorax luteus (Forel, 1874) and T. racovitzai (Bondroit, 1918) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Beiträge zur Entomologie 64:47-57. PDF