• Status as species: Mann, 1922: 29.
• Subspecies of Tranopelta heyeri: Wheeler, 1922g: 10; Emery, 1922c: 193; Borgmeier, 1927c: 101; Ettershank, 1966: 109; Kempf, 1972b: 255; Bolton, 1995b: 421.
• Subspecies of Tranopelta gilva: Wheeler, 1925e: 178.
• Junior synonym of Tranopelta gilva: Emery, 1919b: 61; Kempf, 1972b: 255; Fernández, 2003h: 647.

Obsolete combinations

• Tranopelta columbica
• Tranopelta heyeri columbica

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Borgmeier, T. 1927c. Catalogo systematico e synonymico das formigas do Brasil. 2 parte. Subf. Pseudomyrminae, Myrmicinae, Formicidae. Archivos do Museu Nacional (Rio de Janeiro) 29:69-164. PDF
• Emery, C. 1919b. Sur le genre Tranopelta et sur le type du genre Cremastogaster (Hym. Formicidae). Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France 1919:60-62. PDF
• Emery, C. 1922c. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [part]. Genera Insectorum 174B:95-206. PDF
• Ettershank, G. 1966. A generic revision of the world Myrmicinae related to Solenopsis and Pheidologeton (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 14:73-171. PDF
• Fernández, F. 2003h. Myrmicine ants of the genera Ochetomyrmex and Tranopelta (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Sociobiology 41:633-661.
• Forel, A. 1912h. Formicides néotropiques. Part IV. 3me sous-famille Myrmicinae Lep. (suite). Mémoires de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 20:1-32. PDF
• Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
• Mann, W. M. 1922. Ants from Honduras and Guatemala. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 61:1-54. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1922g. Neotropical ants of the genera Carebara, Tranopelta and Tranopeltoides, new genus. American Museum Novitates 48:1-14. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1925e. A new guest-ant and other new Formicidae from Barro Colorado Island, Panama. Biological Bulletin (Woods Hole) 49:150-181. PDF