• Neotype designation: Dlussky & Soyunov, 1988: 35.
• Dlussky & Soyunov, 1988: 34 (q.)
• Combination in Temnothorax: Dlussky & Soyunov, 1988: 33; Bolton, 2003: 271.
• Status as species: Ruzsky, 1905b: 605; Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1923b: 254; Ruzsky, 1923: 4; Emery, 1924f: 255; Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1927d: 40; Arnol'di, 1971: 1824 (in key); Arnol'di & Dlussky, 1978: 540 (in key); Dlussky, 1981b: 17; Dlussky & Zabelin, 1985: 224; Dlussky & Soyunov, 1988: 33 (redescription); Dlussky et al., 1990: 187; Bolton, 2003: 271; Borowiec et al., 2009: 379; Borowiec, 2014: 189; Radchenko, 2016: 227.

Obsolete combinations

• Leptothorax semenovi

Citations

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