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 affinis
Temnothorax clypeatus
Temnothorax corticalis
Temnothorax crassispinus
Temnothorax exilis
Temnothorax flavicornis
Temnothorax interruptus
Temnothorax italicus
Temnothorax lichtensteini
Temnothorax nigriceps
Temnothorax parvulus
Temnothorax recedens
Temnothorax saxonicus
Temnothorax sordidulus
Temnothorax tuberum
Temnothorax unifasciatus