• Radchenko, 1995a: 27 (q.)
• Combination in Temnothorax: Bolton, 2003: 271
• Status as species: Radchenko, 1994e: 153 (in key); Bolton, 1995b: 244; Radchenko, 1995a: 27; Bolton, 2003: 271; Borowiec, 2014: 189; Bračko, 2019: 173.

Obsolete combinations

• Leptothorax shelkovnikovi

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and classification of Formicidae. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 71:1-370. PDF
• Borowiec, L. 2014. Catalogue of ants of Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and adjacent regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 25 (1-2):1-340. PDF
• Bračko, G. 2019. New data on the ant fauna (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Azerbaijan. Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 15 (1):165-175. 10.23885/181433262019151-165175 PDF
• Karavaiev, V. 1926c. Beiträge zur Ameisenfauna des Kaukasus, nebst einigen Bemerkungen über andere palaearktische Formen. (Fortsetzung). Konowia 5:161-169. PDF
• Radchenko, A. G. 1994e. Identification table for ants of the genus Leptothorax (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from central and eastern Palearctic. [In Russian.]. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 73(7-8):146-158. PDF
• Radchenko, A. G. 1995a ("1994"). A review of the ant genus Leptothorax (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of the central and eastern Palearctic. Communication 1. Subdivision into groups. Groups acervorum and bulgaricus. [In Russian.]. Vestnik Zoologii 1994(6):22-28.