• [Junior secondary homonym of Temnothorax wheeleri Mann, 1920b.]
• Wheeler & Wheeler, 1989a: 323 (l.)
• Combination in Leptothorax (Myrafant): Smith, 1951c: 819.
• Status as species: Smith, 1931a: 18; Wesson & Wesson, 1940: 96; Creighton, 1950a: 273; Smith, 1951c: 819; Wilson, 1952a: 67 (redescription); Smith, 1958c: 133; Smith, 1979: 1395; Deyrup et al., 1989: 97.
• Replacement name: Temnothorax smithi Baroni Urbani, 1978b

Obsolete combinations

• Leptothorax wheeleri

Citations

• Creighton, W. S. 1950a. The ants of North America. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 104:1-585. PDF
• Deyrup, M.; Johnson, C.; Wheeler, G. C.; Wheeler, J. 1989. A preliminary list of the ants of Florida. Florida Entomologist 72:91-101. PDF
• Smith, D. R. 1979. Superfamily Formicoidea. Pp. 1323-1467 in: Krombein, K. V.; Hurd, P. D.; Smith, D. R.; Burks, B. D. (eds.) 1979. Catalog of Hymenoptera in America north of Mexico. Volume 2. Apocrita (Aculeata). Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. i-xvi, 1199-2209.
• Smith, M. R. 1929c. Descriptions of five new North American ants, with biological notes. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 22:543-551. PDF
• Smith, M. R. 1931a. An additional annotated list of the ants of Mississippi (Hym.: Formicoidea). Entomological News 42:16-24. PDF
• Smith, M. R. 1951c. Family Formicidae. Pp. 778-875 in: Muesebeck, C. F. W.; Krombein, K. V.; Townes, H. K. (eds.) 1951. Hymenoptera of America north of Mexico. Synoptic catalogue. United States Department of Agriculture. Agriculture Monograph 2:1-1420. PDF
• Smith, M. R. 1958c. Family Formicidae. Pp. 108-162 in: Krombein, K. V. (ed.) 1958. Hymenoptera of America north of Mexico. Synoptic catalogue. First supplement. United States Department of Agriculture. Agriculture Monograph 2(suppl. 1):1-305. PDF
• Wesson, L. G.; Wesson, R. G. 1940. A collection of ants from southcentral Ohio. American Midland Naturalist 24:89-103. PDF
• Wheeler, G. C.; Wheeler, J. 1989a ("1988"). Notes on ant larvae: Myrmicinae. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 114:319-327. PDF
• Wilson, E. O. 1952a. Notes on Leptothorax bradleyi Wheeler and L. wheeleri M. R. Smith (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Entomological News 63:67-71. PDF