• Lectotype designation: Hita Garcia & Fisher, 2012a: 80.
• Combination in Xiphomyrmex: Wheeler, 1922: 1032.
• Combination in Tetramorium: Bolton, 1979: 143.
• Status as species: Wheeler, 1922: 1032; Emery, 1924f: 288; Bolton, 1979: 143 (redescription); Bolton, 1995b: 415; Hita Garcia & Fisher, 2012a: 80 (redescription).

Citations

• 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. 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
• Forel, A. 1892l. Nouvelles espèces de Formicides de Madagascar (récoltées par M. Sikora). Première série. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 36:516-535. PDF
• Hita Garcia, F.; Fisher, B. L. 2012a. The ant genus Tetramorium Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Malagasy region—taxonomy of the T. bessonii, T. bonibony, T. dysalum, T. marginatum, T. tsingy, and T. weitzeckeri species groups. Zootaxa 3365:1-123. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.