• Subspecies of Tetramorium caespitum: Wheeler, 1922: 894; Emery, 1924f: 277.
• Status as species: Bolton, 1980: 321 (in text); Bolton, 1995b: 411.

Obsolete combinations

• Tetramorium caespitum nautarum

Citations

• 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. 1924f ("1922"). Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [concl.]. Genera Insectorum 174C:207-397. PDF
• Santschi, F. 1918c. Nouveaux Tetramorium africains (Suite et fin). Bulletin de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de l'Afrique du Nord 9:153-156. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.