Extant: 346 species, 47 subspecies
Fossil: 7 species
Taxonomic history
| Temnothorax in Myrmicidae, Myrmicidae: Emery, 1877b PDF: 81. |
| Temnothorax in Myrmicinae: Mayr, 1861 PDF: 68 [Myrmicidae]; Mayr, 1865: 21 [Myrmicidae]; Emery & Forel, 1879a: 459 [Myrmicidae]; Dalla Torre, 1893: 122. |
| Temnothorax in Myrmicinae, Leptothoracini: Forel, 1917 PDF: 245; Emery, 1924f PDF: 259; Donisthorpe, 1943h: 731. |
| Temnothorax in Myrmicinae, Formicoxenini: Bolton, 1994: 105. |
| Temnothorax as subgenus of Leptothorax: Forel, 1892j PDF: 315; Dalla Torre, 1893: 122; Ruzsky, 1905b: 607; Wheeler, 1910a PDF: 139; Emery, 1915e PDF: 24; Forel, 1915d: 27; Emery, 1916a PDF: 176; Forel, 1917 PDF: 245; Bondroit, 1918 PDF: 117; Wheeler, 1922: 679; Emery, 1924f PDF: 259; Donisthorpe, 1943h: 731. |
| Temnothorax as junior synonym of Leptothorax: Forel, 1890b PDF: lxxii; Baroni Urbani, 1971c PDF: 96; Brown, 1973b: 185 [provisional]; Bolton, 1982: 319; Bolton, 1994: 105. |
| Temnothorax as genus: Bernard, 1967a PDF: 185; Arnol'di & Dlussky, 1978: 543; Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 79; Atanasov & Dlussky, 1992: 125; Bolton, 2003 PDF: 270. |
Temnothorax ambiguus
Temnothorax curvispinosus
Temnothorax duloticus
Temnothorax longispinosus
Temnothorax minutissimus
Temnothorax pergandei
Temnothorax schaumii
Temnothorax smithi
Temnothorax texanus