• Combination in Terataner: Emery, 1912b: 103.
• Status as species: Emery, 1912b: 103; Wheeler, 1922: 1029; Emery, 1924f: 242; Bolton, 1981b: 296; Bolton, 1995b: 403; Hita Garcia et al., 2017: 11 (in key).

Obsolete combinations

• Atopomyrmex steinheili

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1981b. A revision of six minor genera of Myrmicinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Ethiopian zoogeographical region. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology 43:245-307. PDF
• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Emery, C. 1912b. Études sur les Myrmicinae. [I-IV.]. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 56:94-105. PDF
• Emery, C. 1924f ("1922"). Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [concl.]. Genera Insectorum 174C:207-397. PDF
• Forel, A. 1895i. Quelques fourmis du centre de Madagascar. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 39:485-488. PDF
• Hita Garcia, F.; Fischer, G.; Liu, C.; Audisio, T. L.; Alpert, G. D.; Fisher, B. L.; Economo, E. P. 2017. X-Ray microtomography for ant taxonomy: An exploration and case study with two new Terataner (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Myrmicinae) species from Madagascar. PLoS ONE 12 (3):36 pp. e0172641. 10.1371/journal.pone.0172641 PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.