• [First available use of Monomorium destructor gracillimum karawajewi Forel, 1913d; unavailable (infrasubspecific) name (Bolton, 1987: 326).]
• As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Viehmeyer, 1923: 91; Ettershank, 1966: 90.
• Subspecies of Trichomyrmex destructor gracillimus: Wheeler, 1922: 875 (date of publication 25.x.1922); Menozzi, 1933b: 64; Santschi, 1939d: 74.
• Status as species: Collingwood, 1985: 270.
• Junior synonym of Trichomyrmex mayri: Bolton, 1987: 326; Bolton, 1995b: 263; Zhou, 2001a: 112; Sharaf et al., 2016a: 20.

Obsolete combinations

• Monomorium gracillimum karawaiewi

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1987. A review of the Solenopsis genus-group and revision of Afrotropical Monomorium Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology 54:263-452. PDF
• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Collingwood, C. A. 1985. Hymenoptera: Fam. Formicidae of Saudi Arabia. Fauna of Saudi Arabia 7:230-302. PDF
• Emery, C. 1922c. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [part]. Genera Insectorum 174B:95-206. PDF
• Ettershank, G. 1966. A generic revision of the world Myrmicinae related to Solenopsis and Pheidologeton (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 14:73-171. PDF
• Menozzi, C. 1933b. Le formiche della Palestina. Memorie della Società Entomologica Italiana 12:49-113. PDF
• Santschi, F. 1939d. Notes sur des Camponotus et autres fourmis de l'Afrique Mineure. Bulletin de la Société des Sciences Naturelles du Maroc 19:66-87. PDF
• Sharaf, M. R.; Salman, S.; Al Dhafer, H. M.; Akbar, S. A.; Abdel-Dayem, M. S.; Aldawood, A. S. 2016a. Taxonomy and distribution of the genus Trichomyrmex Mayr, 1865 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Arabian Peninsula, with the description of two new species. European Journal of Taxonomy 246:1-36. 10.5852/ejt.2016.246 PDF
• Viehmeyer, H. 1923. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der mit Unterstützung der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien aus der Erbschaft Treitl von F. Werner unternommenen zoologischen Expedition nach dem anglo-ägyptischen Sudan (Kordofan) 1914. VII. Hymenoptera A. Formicidae. Denkschriften der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Klasse 98:83-94. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.
• Zhou, S. 2001a. Ants of Guangxi. [In Chinese.]. Guilin, China: Guangxi Normal University Press, 255 pp. PDF