• Combination in Sima: Emery, 1887f: 449; Emery, 1893m: 55.
• Combination in Sima (Tetraponera): Emery, 1921c: 26.
• Combination in Tetraponera: Chapman & Capco, 1951: 81.
• Status as species: Dalla Torre, 1893: 55; Emery, 1900: 673 (footnote); Forel, 1913h: 188; Forel, 1915b: 37; Emery, 1921c: 26; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 81; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 18; Taylor, 1987a: 79; Bolton, 1995b: 419; Ward, 2001: 641 (redescription); Heterick, 2009: 125.
• Senior synonym of Tetraponera punctulata kimberleyensis: Ward, 2001: 641.

Junior synonyms

• Tetraponera punctulata kimberleyensis (Forel, 1915)
  Obsolete combination(s): Sima punctulata kimberleyensis

Obsolete combinations

• Sima punctulata

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
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• Dalla Torre, K. W. 1893. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp. PDF
• Emery, C. 1887f. Catalogo delle formiche esistenti nelle collezioni del Museo Civico di Genova. Parte terza. Formiche della regione Indo-Malese e dell'Australia (continuazione e fine). Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale 25[=(2)5]:433-448. PDF
• Emery, C. 1893m. [Untitled. Taxonomic changes in various genera attributed to Emery.]. Pp. 4-266 in: Dalla Torre, K. W. 1893. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp. PDF
• Emery, C. 1900. Formiche raccolte da Elio Modigliani in Sumatra, Engano e Mentawei. Dummy reference. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale 40[=(2)20]:661-722.
• Emery, C. 1921c. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [part]. Genera Insectorum 174A:1-94 + 7 plates. PDF
• Forel, A. 1913h. Fourmis de Tasmanie et d'Australie récoltées par MM. Lae, Froggatt etc. Bulletin de la Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles 49:173-195. PDF
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• Heterick, B. E. 2009. A guide to the ants of south-western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement 76:1-206. PDF
• Smith, F. 1877b. Descriptions of new species of the genera Pseudomyrma and Tetraponera, belonging to the family Myrmicidae. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1877:57-72. PDF
• Taylor, R. W. 1987a. A checklist of the ants of Australia, New Caledonia and New Zealand (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization) Division of Entomology Report 41:1-92. PDF
• Taylor, R. W.; Brown, D. R. 1985. Formicoidea. Zoological Catalogue of Australia 2:1-149, 306-348.
• Ward, P. S. 2001. Taxonomy, phylogeny and biogeography of the ant genus Tetraponera (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Oriental and Australian regions. Invertebrate Taxonomy 15:589-665. PDF