• As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Emery, 1925d: 21; Donisthorpe, 1942a: 31; Donisthorpe, 1947f: 111.
• Subspecies of Plagiolepis pallescens: Bolton, 1995b: 336; Salata et al., 2018: 821.
• Status as species: Kirschner et al., 2023: 1168.

Obsolete combinations

• Plagiolepis maura sordida
• Plagiolepis pallescens sordida

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Donisthorpe, H. 1942a. The Formicidae (Hym.) of the Armstrong College Expedition to the Siwa Oasis. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (11)9:26-33. PDF
• Donisthorpe, H. 1947f. Results of the Armstrong College Expedition to Siwa Oasis (Libyan Desert), 1935: A second list of the Formicidae (Hymenoptera). Bulletin de la Société Fouad Ier d'Entomologie 31:109-111. PDF
• Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183:1-302. PDF
• Kirschner, P.; Seifert, B.; Kröll, J.; The STEPPE Consortium; Schlick-Steiner, B. C.; Steiner, F. M. 2023. Phylogenomic inference and demographic model selection suggest peripatric separation of the cryptic steppe ant species Plagiolepis pyrenaica stat. rev. Molecular Ecology 32 (5):1149-1168. 10.1111/mec.16828 PDF
• Salata, S.; Borowiec, L.; Radchenko, A. G. 2018. Description of Plagiolepis perperamus, a new species from east Mediterranean and redescription of Plagiolepis pallescens Forel, 1889 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Annales Zoologici (Warsaw) 68 (4):809-824. 10.3161/00034541ANZ2018.68.4.005 PDF
• Santschi, F. 1920g. Cinq nouvelles notes sur les fourmis. Bulletin de la Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles 53:163-186. PDF