• Subspecies of Temnothorax rottenbergii: Emery, 1924f: 252; Menozzi, 1933b: 68 (in key); Bolton, 1995b: 240; Vonshak & Ionescu-Hirsch, 2010: 44; Kiran & Karaman, 2012: 26.
• Status as species: Kugler, 1988: 257; Tohmé & Tohmé, 2014: 136.
• Junior synonym of Temnothorax semiruber: Salata et al., 2018: 796.

Obsolete combinations

• Leptothorax rottenbergi jesus
• Temnothorax rottenbergii jesus

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Emery, C. 1924f ("1922"). Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [concl.]. Genera Insectorum 174C:207-397. PDF
• Forel, A. 1913d. Fourmis de la faune méditerranéenne récoltées par MM. U. et J. Sahlberg. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 21:427-438. PDF
• Kiran, K.; Karaman, C. 2012. First annotated checklist of the ant fauna of Turkey (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 3548:1-38. PDF
• Kugler, J. 1988. The zoogeography of Israel. 9. The zoogeography of social insects of Israel and Sinai. Monographiae Biologicae 62:251-275. PDF
• Menozzi, C. 1933b. Le formiche della Palestina. Memorie della Società Entomologica Italiana 12:49-113. PDF
• Salata, S.; Borowiec, L.; Trichas, A. 2018. Taxonomic revision of the Cretan fauna of the genus Temnothorax Mayr, 1861 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with notes on the endemism of ant fauna of Crete. Annales Zoologici (Warsaw) 68 (4):769-808. 10.3161/00034541ANZ2018.68.4.004 PDF
• Tohmé, G.; Tohmé, H. 2014. Nouvelle liste des espèces de fourmis du Liban (Hymenoptera, Formicoidea). Lebanese Science Journal 15 (1):133-141. PDF
• Vonshak, M.; Ionescu-Hirsch, A. 2010 ("2009"). A checklist of the ants of Israel (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Israel Journal of Entomology 39:33-55. PDF