• Subspecies of Tetramorium caespitum: Pisarski, 1970a: 318
• Junior synonym of Tetramorium turcomanicum: Radchenko, 1992b: 52; Bolton, 1995b: 415.
• Status as species: Csősz et al., 2007: 31 (redescription); Borowiec et al., 2009: 379; Borowiec, 2014: 205; Salata & Borowiec, 2018c: 50; Bračko, 2019: 173; Rasheed et al., 2019: 434; Salata & Borowiec, 2019c: 2.
• Senior synonym of Tetramorium karakalense: Csősz et al., 2007: 31.

Junior synonyms

• Tetramorium karakalense Dlussky & Zabelin, 1985

Obsolete combinations

• Tetramorium caespitum sulcinode

Citations

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