• [First available use of Tetramorium caespitum punicum lucidulum Emery, 1909; unavailable (infrasubspecific) name.].
• As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Forel, 1910a: 23; Karavaiev, 1911a: 53; Karavaiev, 1912a: 14; Wheeler & Mann, 1916: 172; Santschi, 1921a: 111; Emery, 1924f: 277.
• Status as species: Aktaç, 1977: 123; Agosti & Collingwood, 1987a: 56; Agosti & Collingwood, 1987b: 277 (in key); Kugler, 1988: 257; Bolton, 1995b: 410; Petrov, 2006: 100 (in key); Vonshak & Ionescu-Hirsch, 2009: 45; Karaman, 2011b: 59; Legakis, 2011: 21; Borowiec & Salata, 2012: 550; Kiran & Karaman, 2012: 28; Borowiec, 2014: 201; Tohmé & Tohmé, 2014: 136; Lebas et al., 2016: 393.

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