• Lectotype designation: Bolton, 1980: 227.
• Combination in Tetramorium: Bolton, 1980: 227
• Status as species: Bolton, 1980: 227 (redescription); Bolton, 1995b: 408; Hita Garcia et al., 2010b: 70 (redescription); Guénard & Dunn, 2012: 56 (error); Borowiec, 2014: 199; Hita Garcia & Fischer, 2014: 9 (in key); Bezděčková et al., 2015: 122 (error).
• [Note: Bezděčková et al., 2015: 122, record Tetramorium guineense Bernard, 1953b from Peru. This error should read Tetramorium bicarinatum.]

Obsolete combinations

• Xiphomyrmex weitzeckeri guineensis

Citations

• Bernard, F. 1953b ("1952"). La réserve naturelle intégrale du Mt Nimba. XI. Hyménoptères Formicidae. Mémoires de l'Institut Français d'Afrique Noire 19:165-270. PDF
• Bezděčková, K.; Bezděčka, P.; Machar, I. 2015. A checklist of the ants of Peru. Zootaxa 4020:101-133. 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
• Guénard, B.; Dunn, R. R. 2012. A checklist of the ants of China. Zootaxa 3358:1-77. PDF
• Hita Garcia, F.; Fischer, G. 2014. Additions to the taxonomy of the Afrotropical Tetramorium weitzeckeri species complex (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Myrmicinae), with the description of a new species from Kenya. European Journal of Taxonomy 90:1-16. PDF
• Hita Garcia, F.; Fischer, G.; Peters, M. K. 2010b. Taxonomy of the Tetramorium weitzeckeri species group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Afrotropical zoogeographical region. Zootaxa 2704:1-90. PDF