• Subspecies of Tetramorium simillimum: Forel, 1910f: 425; Arnold, 1917: 330; Wheeler, 1922: 904; Emery, 1924f: 279.
• Status as species: Bolton, 1979: 156 (redescription); Bolton, 1980: 311 (redescription); Kugler, 1988: 257; Bolton, 1995b: 406; Collingwood & Agosti, 1996: 334; Vonshak & Ionescu-Hirsch, 2010: 45; Sharaf et al., 2012: 8 (in key); Hita Garcia et al., 2013: 217; Borowiec, 2014: 197.
• Senior synonym of Tetramorium simillimum madecassum: Bolton, 1979: 156; Bolton, 1980: 311; Bolton, 1995b: 406.

Junior synonyms

• Tetramorium simillimum madecassum Forel, 1895

Obsolete combinations

• Tetramorium simillimum delagoense

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
• Bolton, B. 1979. The ant tribe Tetramoriini (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). The genus Tetramorium Mayr in the Malagasy region and in the New World. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology 38:129-181. 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.
• Borowiec, L. 2014. Catalogue of ants of Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and adjacent regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 25 (1-2):1-340. PDF
• Collingwood, C. A.; Agosti, D. 1996. Formicidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera) of Saudi Arabia (part 2). Fauna of Saudi Arabia 15:300-385. PDF
• Emery, C. 1924f ("1922"). Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [concl.]. Genera Insectorum 174C:207-397. PDF
• Forel, A. 1894b. Abessinische und andere afrikanische Ameisen, gesammelt von Herrn Ingenieur Alfred Ilg, von Herrn Dr. Liengme, von Herrn Pfarrer Missionar P. Berthoud, Herrn Dr. Arth. Müller etc. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 9:64-100. PDF
• Forel, A. 1910f. Note sur quelques fourmis d'Afrique. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 54:421-458. PDF
• Hita Garcia, F.; Wiesel, E.; Fischer, G. 2013. The ants of Kenya (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)—faunal overview, first species checklist, bibliography, accounts for all genera, and discussion on taxonomy and zoogeography. Journal of East African Natural History 101 (2):127-222. PDF
• Kugler, J. 1988. The zoogeography of Israel. 9. The zoogeography of social insects of Israel and Sinai. Monographiae Biologicae 62:251-275. PDF
• Sharaf, M. R.; Aldawood, A. S.; Taylor, B. 2012. A new ant species of the genus Tetramorium Mayr, 1855 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Saudi Arabia, with a revised key to the Arabian species. PLoS ONE 7 (2):e30811. 10.1371/journal.pone.0030811 PDF
• Vonshak, M.; Ionescu-Hirsch, A. 2010 ("2009"). A checklist of the ants of Israel (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Israel Journal of Entomology 39:33-55. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.