• [Also described as new by Karavaiev, 1931e: 212.]
• Subspecies of Temnothorax tuberum: Holgersen, 1940: 183; Holgersen, 1943c: 172 (in key); Holgersen, 1944a: 171; Bolton, 1995b: 241.
• Junior synonym of Temnothorax tuberum: Collingwood, 1971: 161; Radchenko, 1995c: 14; Radchenko, 2016: 229.

Obsolete combinations

• Leptothorax tuberum nigricephala

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Collingwood, C. A. 1971. A synopsis of the Formicidae of north Europe. Entomologist 104:150-176. PDF
• Holgersen, H. 1940. Myrmekologiske notiser I. Norsk Entomologisk Tidsskrift 5:183-187. PDF
• Holgersen, H. 1943c. Bestemmelsestabell over norske maur (Hym., Formicidae). Norsk Entomologisk Tidsskrift 6:164-182. PDF
• Holgersen, H. 1944a. The ants of Norway (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Nytt Magasin for Naturvidenskapene 84:165-203. PDF
• Karavaiev, V. 1930b. Beitrag zur Ameisenfauna der schwedischen Inseln Gotland und Oeland. Zbirnyk Prats' Zoolohichnoho Muzeyu 8:5-46 [= Trudy. Vseukrains'ka Akademiya Nauk. Fizichno-Matematichnoho Viddilu 15:109-150]. PDF
• Karavaiev, V. 1931e. Uebersicht der Ameisenfauna von Schweden. Zbirnyk Prats' Zoolohichnoho Muzeyu 10:207-220 [= Trudy. Vseukrains'ka Akademiya Nauk. Pryrodnycho-Technichnoho Viddilu 5:207-220]. 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.