• Status as species: Arakelian, 1994: 80; Bolton, 1995b: 336.
• Junior synonym of Plagiolepis pallescens: Salata et al., 2018: 812 (by implication).
• Junior synonym of Plagiolepis taurica: Radchenko, 1996d: 185; Kirschner et al., 2023: 1151 (Plagiolepis taurica reinstated as species).

Citations

• Arakelian, G. R. 1994. Fauna of the Republic of Armenia. Hymenopterous insects. Ants (Formicidae). [In Russian.]. Erevan: Gitutium, 153 pp. PDF
• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Karavaiev, V. 1931a ("1930"). Myrmekologische Fragmente, III. Zoologischer Anzeiger 92:309-317. 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
• Radchenko, A. G. 1996d. Ants of the genus Plagiolepis Mayr (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of central and southern Palearctic. [In Russian.]. Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie 75:178-187.
• 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