• Status as species: Bingham, 1903: 177; Wheeler, 1930b: 103; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 173; Tiwari, 1999: 64 (error).
• Subspecies of Tetramorium wroughtonii: Forel, 1903a: 700; Emery, 1924f: 290; Wheeler, 1928c: 26; Wheeler, 1930k: 71.
• Junior synonym of Tetramorium wroughtonii: Brown, 1964c: 14; Bolton, 1976: 302; Bolton, 1986a: 16; Bolton, 1995b: 378; Zhou, 2001a: 119.

Obsolete combinations

• Rhoptromyrmex rothneyi
• Rhoptromyrmex wroughtonii rothneyi
• Tetramorium rothneyi

Citations

• Bingham, C. T. 1903. The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Hymenoptera, Vol. II. Ants and Cuckoo-wasps. London: Taylor and Francis, 506 pp. PDF
• Bolton, B. 1976. The ant tribe Tetramoriini (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Constituent genera, review of smaller genera and revision of Triglyphothrix Forel. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology 34:281-379. PDF
• Bolton, B. 1986a. A taxonomic and biological review of the tetramoriine ant genus Rhoptromyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Systematic Entomology 11:1-17. PDF
• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Brown, W. L., Jr. 1964c. [Review of: Wheeler, G. C., Wheeler, J. 1963. The ants of North Dakota. Grand Forks, North Dakota: University of North Dakota Press, viii + 326 pp.]. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 37:87-88. PDF
• Chapman, J. W.; Capco, S. R. 1951. Check list of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Asia. Monographs of the Institute of Science and Technology. Manila 1:1-327. PDF
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• Forel, A. 1902c. Myrmicinae nouveaux de l'Inde et de Ceylan. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 10:165-249. PDF
• Forel, A. 1903a. Les Formicides de l'Empire des Indes et de Ceylan. Part X. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 14:679-715. PDF
• Tiwari, R. N. 1999. Taxonomic studies on ants of southern India (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Memoirs of the Zoological Survey of India 18(4):1-96. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1928c. Ants collected by Professor F. Silvestri in China. Bollettino del Laboratorio di Zoologia Generale e Agraria della Reale Scuola Superiore d'Agricoltura. Portici 22:3-38. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1930b. Formosan ants collected by Dr. R. Takahashi. Proceedings of the New England Zoological Club 11:93-106. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1930k. A list of the known Chinese ants. Peking Natural History Bulletin 5:53-81. PDF
• Zhou, S. 2001a. Ants of Guangxi. [In Chinese.]. Guilin, China: Guangxi Normal University Press, 255 pp. PDF