• Combination in Sima: Emery, 1893m: 54.
• Combination in Sima (Tetraponera): Emery, 1921c: 26.
• Combination in Tetraponera: Donisthorpe, 1932c: 462.
• Status as species: Roger, 1863b: 24; Mayr, 1863a: 452; Smith, 1871a: 328; Smith, 1877b: 60; Dalla Torre, 1893: 54; Emery, 1900: 675 (footnote); Emery, 1921c: 26; Donisthorpe, 1932c: 462; Donisthorpe, 1947c: 581; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 81; Bolton, 1995b: 419; Zhou, 2001a: 67; Ward, 2001: 636 (redescription); Xu & Chai, 2004: 64 (in key); Jaitrong & Nabhitabhata, 2005: 45; Pfeiffer et al., 2011: 58; Guénard & Dunn, 2012: 63; Bharti & Akbar, 2014a: 47 (in key); Bharti et al., 2016: 54; Jaitrong et al., 2016: 44; Dias et al., 2020: 119; Khachonpisitsak et al., 2020: 159; Wang et al., 2022: 139.
• Senior synonym of Tetraponera bidentata angusticeps: Ward, 2001: 636.
• Senior synonym of Tetraponera bidentata: Ward, 2001: 636.
• Senior synonym of Tetraponera brevicornis: Ward, 2001: 636.
• Senior synonym of Tetraponera carbonaria: Ward, 2001: 636.
• Senior synonym of Tetraponera longiceps: Ward, 2001: 636.
• Senior synonym of Tetraponera maffini: Ward, 2001: 636.
• Senior synonym of Tetraponera siggi nebulosa: Ward, 2001: 636.
• Senior synonym of Tetraponera siggi setifera: Ward, 2001: 636.
• Senior synonym of Tetraponera shankouensis: Ward, 2001: 636; Zhou, 2001a: 68.
• Senior synonym of Tetraponera siggi: Ward, 2001: 636.

Junior synonyms

• Tetraponera bidentata (Karavaiev, 1933)
  Obsolete combination(s): Sima bidentata
• Tetraponera bidentata angusticeps (Karavaiev, 1933)
  Obsolete combination(s): Sima bidentata angusticeps
• Tetraponera brevicornis (Emery, 1900)
  Obsolete combination(s): Sima brevicornis
• Tetraponera carbonaria (Smith, 1863)
  Obsolete combination(s): Pseudomyrma carbonaria
• Tetraponera longiceps (Forel, 1902)
  Obsolete combination(s): Sima difficilis longiceps
• Tetraponera maffini Donisthorpe, 1948
• Tetraponera shankouensis Zhou & Jiang, 1997
• Tetraponera siggi (Forel, 1902)
  Obsolete combination(s): Sima siggi
• Tetraponera siggi nebulosa (Forel, 1903)
  Obsolete combination(s): Sima siggii nebulosa
• Tetraponera siggi setifera (Viehmeyer, 1916)
  Obsolete combination(s): Sima siggi setifera

Obsolete combinations

• Pseudomyrma nitida

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