• Wheeler & Wheeler, 1960b: 24 (l.)
• Combination in Leptothorax (Myrafant): Smith, 1950a: 30.
• Combination in Temnothorax: Bolton, 2003: 272.
• Status as species: Wheeler, 1910a: 567; Emery, 1924f: 258; Smith, 1932: 159; Wesson & Wesson, 1940: 98; Creighton, 1950a: 272; Smith, 1951c: 819; Smith, 1952c: 102; Smith, 1958c: 133; Carter, 1962a: 7 (in list); Smith, 1967a: 359; Hunt & Snelling, 1975: 22; Smith, 1979: 1395; MacKay et al., 1988: 90; Wheeler et al., 1994: 303; Bolton, 1995b: 245; Mackay, 2000: 415 (redescription); Mackay & Mackay, 2002: 139; Bolton, 2003: 272; Deyrup, 2003: 45; Deyrup & Cover, 2004a: 56; Coovert, 2005: 76; MacGown & Forster, 2005: 72; Ellison et al., 2012: 330; Deyrup, 2017: 148.
• Senior synonym of Temnothorax davisi: Deyrup & Cover, 2004a: 56.

Junior synonyms

• Temnothorax davisi (Wheeler, 1905)
  Obsolete combination(s): Leptothorax texanus davisi

Obsolete combinations

• Leptothorax texanus

Citations

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