• Combination in Sima (Tetraponera): Emery, 1921c: 28.
• Combination in Tetraponera: Wheeler, 1922: 107.
• Status as species: Forel, 1916: 403; Emery, 1921c: 28; Wheeler, 1922: 107, 800; Santschi, 1928d: 60; Menozzi, 1942a: 166; Eidmann, 1944: 469; Bolton, 1995b: 419; Ward, 2006: 126 (redescription); Hita Garcia et al., 2013: 222.
• Senior synonym of Tetraponera nasuta: Ward, 2006: 126; Ward, 2022: 8.
• Senior synonym of Tetraponera ophthalmica tenebrosa: Ward, 2006: 126; Ward, 2022: 8.
• Senior synonym of Tetraponera ophthalmica unidens: Ward, 2006: 126; Ward, 2022: 44.

Junior synonyms

• Tetraponera nasuta Bernard, 1953
• Tetraponera ophthalmica tenebrosa Santschi, 1928
• Tetraponera ophthalmica unidens Santschi, 1928

Obsolete combinations

• Sima ophthalmica

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Eidmann, H. 1944. Die Ameisenfauna von Fernando Poo. 27. Beitrag zu den Ergebnissen der Westafrika-Expedition. Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik, Ökologie und Geographie der Tiere 76:413-490. PDF
• Emery, C. 1912b. Études sur les Myrmicinae. [I-IV.]. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 56:94-105. PDF
• Emery, C. 1921c. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [part]. Genera Insectorum 174A:1-94 + 7 plates. PDF
• Forel, A. 1916. Fourmis du Congo et d'autres provenances récoltées par MM. Hermann Kohl, Luja, Mayné, etc. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 24:397-460. PDF
• Hita Garcia, F.; Wiesel, E.; Fischer, G. 2013. The ants of Kenya (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)—faunal overview, first species checklist, bibliography, accounts for all genera, and discussion on taxonomy and zoogeography. Journal of East African Natural History 101 (2):127-222. PDF
• Menozzi, C. 1942a. Formiche dell'isola Fernando Poo e del territorio del Rio Muni (Guinea Spagnola). 24. Beitrag zu den wissenschaftlichen Ergebnissen der Forschungsreise H. Eidmann nach Spanisch-Guinea 1939 bis 1940. Zoologischer Anzeiger 140:164-182. PDF
• Santschi, F. 1928d. Descriptions de nouvelles fourmis éthiopiennes (quatrième note). Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines 16:54-69. PDF
• Ward, P. S. 2006. The ant genus Tetraponera in the Afrotropical region: synopsis of species groups and revision of the T. ambigua-group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Myrmecologische Nachrichten 8:119-130. PDF
• Ward, P. S. 2022. The ant genus Tetraponera (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Afrotropical region: taxonomic review and key to species. Zootaxa 5102 (1):1-70. 10.11646/zootaxa.5102.1.1 PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.