• Status as species: Ceballos, 1956: 306.
• Junior synonym of Temnothorax recedens: Dlussky & Soyunov, 1988: 31; Bolton, 1995b: 241; Radchenko, 2016: 226; Salata et al., 2018: 793.

Obsolete combinations

• Leptothorax mordax

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Ceballos, G. 1956. Catálogo de los Himenópteros de España. Madrid: Instituto Español de Entomología, 554 pp.
• Dlussky, G. M.; Soyunov, O. S. 1988. Ants of the genus Temnothorax Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of the USSR. [In Russian.]. Izvestiya Akademii Nauk Turkmenskoi SSR. Seriya Biologicheskikh Nauk 1988(4):29-37. 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.
• Salata, S.; Borowiec, L.; Trichas, A. 2018. Taxonomic revision of the Cretan fauna of the genus Temnothorax Mayr, 1861 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with notes on the endemism of ant fauna of Crete. Annales Zoologici (Warsaw) 68 (4):769-808. 10.3161/00034541ANZ2018.68.4.004 PDF
• Santschi, F. 1919e. Fourmis d'Espagne et des Canaries. Boletín de la Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural 19:241-248. PDF