• Subspecies of Tetramorium gladstonei: Wheeler, 1922: 895; Emery, 1924f: 280; Arnold, 1926: 254.
• Status as species: Bolton, 1980: 331 (redescription); Bolton, 1995b: 414.

Obsolete combinations

• Tetramorium gladstonei sepositum

Citations

• 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.
• Emery, C. 1924f ("1922"). Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [concl.]. Genera Insectorum 174C:207-397. PDF
• Santschi, F. 1918b. Nouveaux Tetramorium africains. Bulletin de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de l'Afrique du Nord 9:121-132. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.