• As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Emery & Forel, 1879: 458; Emery, 1916a: 174; Emery, 1924f: 256.
• Subspecies of Temnothorax tuberum: André, 1883a: 298; Forel, 1890b: lxxiv; Emery, 1891c: 5; Dalla Torre, 1893: 128; Emery, 1914c: 158; Santschi, 1919e: 242; Menozzi, 1925d: 28; Ceballos, 1956: 307.
• Junior synonym of Temnothorax nigriceps: Forel, 1874: 102 (in list); Stärcke, 1926a: 94 (in key).
• Status as species: Bondroit, 1920a: 154; Baroni Urbani, 1971c: 115; Collingwood, 1978: 70; Agosti & Collingwood, 1987a: 55; Agosti & Collingwood, 1987b: 276 (in key); Atanassov & Dlussky, 1992: 138; Poldi et al., 1995: 5; Karaman & Karaman, 2005: 55; Petrov, 2006: 98 (in key); Lapeva-Gjonova et al., 2010: 23; Karaman, 2011b: 31; Radchenko, 2016: 223; Salata & Borowiec, 2018c: 50.
• Junior synonym of Temnothorax tuberum: Casevitz-Weulersse, 1990c: 420; Bolton, 1995b: 241; Casevitz-Weulersse & Galkowski, 2009: 496; Legakis, 2011: 18; Borowiec, 2014: 192; Blatrix et al., 2020: 426.

Obsolete combinations

• Leptothorax melanocephalus
• Leptothorax tuberum melanocephalus

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