• Santschi, 1919h: 84 (q.); Wheeler, 1922: 109 (q.m.); Wheeler, 1918c: 304 (l.); Wheeler & Bailey, 1920: 258 (l.); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1956: 391 (l.).
• Combination in Tetraponera: Wheeler, 1918c: 303.
• Combination in Viticicola: Wheeler, 1919k: 130; Wheeler, 1922b: 109.
• Combination in Sima (Tetraponera): Emery, 1921c: 28.
• Combination in Tetraponera: Ward, 1990: 489.
• Status as species: Santschi, 1919h: 84; Emery, 1921c: 28; Wheeler, 1922: 109 (redescription), 801; Brown, 1950g: 248; Bolton, 1995b: 419; Ward, 2022: 38 (diagnosis).
• Senior synonym of Tetraponera tessmanni castanea: Brown, 1950g: 248; Bolton, 1995b: 419; Ward, 2022: 38.

Junior synonyms

• Tetraponera tessmanni castanea (Wheeler, 1922)
  Obsolete combination(s): Viticicola tessmanni castanea

Obsolete combinations

• Sima tessmanni
• Viticicola tessmanni

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Brown, W. L., Jr. 1950g. Morphological, taxonomic, and other notes on ants. Wasmann Journal of Biology 8:241-250. PDF
• Emery, C. 1921c. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [part]. Genera Insectorum 174A:1-94 + 7 plates. PDF
• Santschi, F. 1919h. Nouvelles fourmis du Congo Belge du Musée du Congo Belge, à Tervueren. Revue Zoologique Africaine (Brussels) 7:79-91. PDF
• Stitz, H. 1910. Westafrikanische Ameisen. I. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin 5:125-151. PDF
• Ward, P. S. 1990. The ant subfamily Pseudomyrmecinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): generic revision and relationship to other formicids. Systematic Entomology 15:449-489. PDF
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• Wheeler, G. C.; Wheeler, J. 1956. The ant larvae of the subfamily Pseudomyrmecinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 49:374-398. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1918c. A study of some ant larvae, with a consideration of the origin and meaning of the social habit among insects. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 57:293-343. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1919k. A singular neotropical ant (Pseudomyrma filiformis Fabricius). Psyche (Cambridge) 26:124-131. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.
• Wheeler, W. M. 1922b. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. A contribution to the myrmecology of Africa. II. The ants collected by the American Museum Congo Expedition. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 45:39-269. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M.; Bailey, I. W. 1920. The feeding habits of pseudomyrmine and other ants. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society (2)22:235-279. PDF