• Subspecies of Tetramorium bicolor: Emery, 1924f: 283.
• Status as species: Bolton, 1977: 103 (redescription); Bolton, 1995b: 415
• Senior synonym of Tetramorium tricolor Donisthorpe, 1949c: Bolton, 1977: 103; Bolton, 1995b: 415.

Junior synonyms

• Tetramorium tricolor (Donisthorpe, 1949)
  Obsolete combination(s): Xiphomyrmex tricolor

Obsolete combinations

• Tetramorium bicolor tricarinatum

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1977. The ant tribe Tetramoriini (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). The genus Tetramorium Mayr in the Oriental and Indo-Australian regions, and in Australia. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology 36:67-151. 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
• Viehmeyer, H. 1914c. Papuanische Ameisen. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 1914:515-535. PDF