• Lectotype designation: Longino & Fernández, 2007: 281.
• Forel, 1893j: 386 (q.m.)
• Combination in Tetramorium (Xiphomyrmex): Forel, 1887: 384.
• Combination in Wasmannia: Forel, 1893j: 386
• Status as species: Mayr, 1887: 622; Forel, 1893j: 386; Dalla Torre, 1893: 134; Forel, 1895b: 127; Forel, 1897b: 300; Wheeler, 1905c: 128; Emery, 1924f: 294; Borgmeier, 1927c: 111; Kusnezov, 1952h: 174; Kempf, 1961b: 514; Kempf, 1972b: 258; Bolton, 1995b: 424; Longino & Fernández, 2007: 281; Cuezzo et al., 2015: 249 (in key).

Obsolete combinations

• Tetramorium sigmoideum

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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