• Lectotype designation: Salata et al., 2023: 64.
• Salata & Borowiec, 2018c: 32 (q.).
• Subspecies of Temnothorax bulgaricus: Emery, 1924f: 253; Bolton, 1995b: 244; Kiran & Karaman, 2012: 25.
• Status as species: Borowiec & Salata, 2018a: 8; Salata & Borowiec, 2018c: 32; Salata et al., 2023: 64 (redescription).

Obsolete combinations

• Leptothorax bulgaricus smyrnensis
• Temnothorax bulgaricus smyrnensis

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Borowiec, L.; Salata, S. 2018a. Notes on ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Samos Island, Greece. Annals of the Upper Silesian Museum in Bytom, Entomology 27:1-13. 10.5281/zenodo.1481802 PDF
• Emery, C. 1924f ("1922"). Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [concl.]. Genera Insectorum 174C:207-397. PDF
• Forel, A. 1911f. Fourmis nouvelles ou intéressantes. Bulletin de la Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles 47:331-400. PDF
• Kiran, K.; Karaman, C. 2012. First annotated checklist of the ant fauna of Turkey (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 3548:1-38. PDF
• Salata, S.; Borowiec, L. 2018c. Taxonomic and faunistic notes on Greek ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Annals of the Upper Silesian Museum in Bytom, Entomology 27 (008):1-51. 10.5281/zenodo.2199191 PDF
• Salata, S.; Środoń, K.; Borowiec, L. 2023. A taxonomic revision of the Temnothorax graecus species-group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Greece. Annales Zoologici (Warsaw) 73 (1):51-68. 10.3161/00034541ANZ2023.73.1.005 PDF