• Combination in Temnothorax: Bolton, 2003: 271
• Status as species: Burnham, 1979: 111; Keilbach, 1982: 276; Bolton, 1995b: 243; Bolton, 2003: 271; Dlussky & Rasnitsyn, 2009: 1032; Perkovsky, 2016: 117.

Obsolete combinations

• †Leptothorax placivus

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and classification of Formicidae. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 71:1-370. PDF
• Burnham, L. 1979 ("1978"). Survey of social insects in the fossil record. Psyche (Cambridge) 85:85-133. PDF
• Dlussky, G. M.; Rasnitsyn, A. P. 2009. Ants (Insecta: Vespida: Formicidae) in the Upper Eocene amber of central and eastern Europe. Paleontological Journal 43:1024-1042. PDF
• Keilbach, R. 1982. Bibliographie und Liste der Arten tierischer Einschlüsse in fossilen Harzen sowie ihrer Aufbewahrungsorte. Teil 1. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift (N.F.)29:129-286.
• Perkovsky, E. E. 2016. Tropical and Holarctic ants in Late Eocene ambers. Vestnik Zoologii 50 (2):111-122. 10.1515/vzoo-2016-0014 PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1915i ("1914"). The ants of the Baltic Amber. Schriften der Physikalisch-Ökonomischen Gesellschaft zu Königsberg 55:1-142. PDF