• Emery, 1895i: 36 (q.m.)
• Status as species: Mayr, 1870b: 972 (in key); Dalla Torre, 1893: 133; Emery, 1895i: 36; Santschi, 1914a: 435; Santschi, 1914d: 366; Arnold, 1917: 310; Wheeler, 1922: 894; Emery, 1924f: 280; Arnold, 1926: 245 (in key); Prins, 1973: 8 (redescription); Bolton, 1980: 359 (redescription); Bolton, 1995b: 405.
• Senior synonym of Tetramorium braunsi: Santschi, 1914a: 435; Wheeler, 1922: 895; Bolton, 1980: 359; Bolton, 1995b: 405.
• Senior synonym of Tetramorium popovici: Bolton, 1980: 359; Bolton, 1995b: 405.

Junior synonyms

• Tetramorium braunsi Forel, 1913
• Tetramorium popovici Forel, 1914

Citations

• Arnold, G. 1917. A monograph of the Formicidae of South Africa. Part III. Myrmicinae. Annals of the South African Museum 14:271-402. PDF
• Arnold, G. 1926. A monograph of the Formicidae of South Africa. Appendix. Annals of the South African Museum 23:191-295. PDF
• Bolton, B. 1980. The ant tribe Tetramoriini (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). The genus Tetramorium Mayr in the Ethiopian zoogeographical region. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology 40:193-384. PDF
• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Dalla Torre, K. W. 1893. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp. PDF
• Emery, C. 1895i. Voyage de M. E. Simon dans l'Afrique australe (janvier-avril 1893). 3e mémoire. Formicides. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 64:15-56. PDF
• Emery, C. 1924f ("1922"). Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [concl.]. Genera Insectorum 174C:207-397. PDF
• Mayr, G. 1865. Formicidae. In: Novara Expedition 1865. Reise der Österreichischen Fregatte "Novara" um die Erde in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859. Zoologischer Theil. Bd. II. Abt. 1. Wien: K. Gerold's Sohn, 119 pp. PDF
• Mayr, G. 1870b. Neue Formiciden. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 20:939-996. PDF
• Prins, A. J. 1973. African Formicidae (Hymenoptera) in the South African Museum. Description of four new species and notes on Tetramorium Mayr. Annals of the South African Museum 62:1-40. PDF
• Santschi, F. 1914a ("1913"). Mélanges myrmecologiques. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 57:429-437. PDF
• Santschi, F. 1914d. Formicides de l'Afrique occidentale et australe du voyage de Mr. le Professeur F. Silvestri. Bollettino del Laboratorio di Zoologia Generale e Agraria della Reale Scuola Superiore d'Agricoltura. Portici 8:309-385. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.