• Lectotype designation: Seifert, 2003a: 229.
• [Misspelled as uljanini by Dalla Torre, 1893: 70; Ruzsky, 1905b: 627; Emery, 1922c: 125, and others.]
• Karavaiev, 1911a: 57 (q.); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1953d: 188 (l.); Marikovsky & Yakushkin, 1974: 57 (w.q.m., ergatoids); Tarbinsky, 1976: 74 (m.).
• Subspecies of Cardiocondyla elegans: Dalla Torre, 1893: 70; Ruzsky, 1903b: 313; Ruzsky, 1905b: 627; Emery, 1909a: 22; Karavaiev, 1911a: 56; Emery, 1922c: 125; Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1923b: 254; Schkaff, 1925b: 274; Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1927d: 38; Pisarski, 1967a: 388; Tarbinsky, 1976: 74 (redescription); Dlussky, 1981b: 17; Dlussky & Zabelin, 1985: 213.
• Junior synonym of Cardiocondyla elegans: Dlussky et al., 1990: 194; Bolton, 1995b: 133; Radchenko, 1995g: 449.
• Status as species: Marikovsky & Yakushkin, 1974: 57; Agosti & Collingwood, 1987a: 56; Agosti & Collingwood, 1987b: 276 (in key); Seifert, 2003a: 229 (redescription); Petrov, 2006: 99 (in key); Schultz et al., 2006: 206; Borowiec et al., 2009: 378; Guénard & Dunn, 2012: 41; Borowiec, 2014: 49; Radchenko, 2016: 235; Seifert, 2023b: 32 (redescription).
• Senior synonym of Cardiocondyla elegans schkaffi: Radchenko, 2016: 235.

Junior synonyms

• Cardiocondyla elegans schkaffi Alpatov & Arnol'di, 1928

Obsolete combinations

• Cardiocondyla elegans ulianini

Citations

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