• Subspecies of Pheidole guineensis: Arnold, 1917: 307; Wheeler, 1922: 896; Emery, 1924f: 279; Menozzi, 1933a: 104.
• Status as species: Bolton, 1980: 269 (redescription); Bolton, 1995b: 407.
• Senior synonym of Tetramorium bacchus: Bolton, 1980: 269; Bolton, 1995b: 407.

Junior synonyms

• Tetramorium bacchus Forel, 1910

Obsolete combinations

• Tetramorium guineense erectum

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. 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.
• 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
• Menozzi, C. 1933a. Raccolte mirmecologiche dell'Africa orientale conservate nel Museo Civico di Storia Naturale "Giacomo Doria" di Genova. II. Formiche dell'Uganda e delle isole Sesse raccolte dal Dr. E. Bayon. [concl.]. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale "Giacomo Doria" 56:113-114.
• Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.