Roger, 1863b: 25 (Sima); Mayr, 1863a: 453; Smith, 1877b: 68; Dalla Torre, 1893: 53; Emery, 1921c: 23, 23, 25 (Sima (Pachysima), Sima (Sima), Sima (Tetraponera)); Wheeler, 1922: 795, 801 (Afrotropical Tetraponera, Viticicola, Pachysima); Wheeler, 1922: 1014 (Malagasy); Taylor & Brown, 1985: 17 (Australia); Taylor, 1987a: 79 (Australia); Bolton, 1995b: 416; Fisher & Bolton, 2016: 441 (Afrotropical, Malagasy checklist).
Mayr, 1865: 25 (Sima diagnosis); Mayr, 1867a: 82 (Sima diagnosis); Mayr, 1868c: 101 (Baltic Amber species key); Emery, 1899f: 6 (larvae); Emery, 1900: 673 (Asia & Australia species key); Forel, 1903a: 708 (India & Sri Lanka species key); Bingham, 1903: 107 (India, Sri Lanka & Burma species key); Arnold, 1916: 173 (Sima diagnosis, South Africa species key); Emery, 1921c: 22 (subgenera key); Emery, 1921c: 21, 22, 24 (Sima, Sima (Pachysima), Sima (Tetraponera) diagnoses); Wheeler, 1922: 112 (Pachysima species key); Wheeler, 1922: 104, 107, 112 (Tetraponera, Viticicola, Pachysima diagnoses); Wu & Wang, 1990: 516 (China species key); Dlussky & Radchenko, 1990: 120 (Vietnam species key); Ward, 1990: 470 (diagnosis, review of genus, phylogeny); Bolton, 1994: 184 (synoptic classification); Bolton, 1995a: 1053 (census); Wu & Wang, 1995a: 55 (China species key); Collingwood & Agosti, 1996: 312 (Saudi Arabia species key); Dlussky, 1997a: 55 (in Baltic amber genera key); Shattuck, 1999: 208 (Australia synopsis); Zhou, 2001a: 64 (China, Guangxi species key); Ward, 2001: 596 (Oriental & Australian, all species revision, key); Xu & Chai, 2004: 64 (China species key); Ward, 2006: 120 (Afrotropical species groups key); Ward, 2006: 123 (Tetraponera ambigua group key); Ward, 2009a: 288 (Tetraponera grandidieri group key); Dlussky, 2009: 1084 (Eocene amber species key); Terayama, 2009: 128 (Taiwan species key); Eguchi et al., 2011: 31 (diagnosis, Vietnam synopsis); Bharti & Akbar, 2014a: 46 (India species key); Fisher & Bolton, 2016: 441 (diagnosis); Heterick, 2021: 214 (Western Australia species key); Cantone, 2017: 279 (brief male diagnosis); Ward, 2022: 1 (Afrotropical taxonomic review), 7 (list of Afrotropical species, Afrotropical species groups), 9 (species key (workers, queens)), 26 (Tetraponera allaborans-group, diagnosis), 39 (Tetraponera allaborans-group), 43 (Tetraponera ambigua-group, diagnosis), 44 (Tetraponera grandidieri-group, diagnosis), 45 (Tetraponera natalensis-group, diagnosis), 60 (Tetraponera rufonigra-group, diagnosis); Subedi et al., 2022: 94 (synoptic species list of Nepalese Tetraponera), 97 (key to Nepalese species (workers)); Ramamonjisoa et al., 2024: 357 (Malagasy region male diagnosis).
Extant: 87 valid species (51 synonyms, 1 obsolete combination), 0 valid subspecies (36 synonyms, 1 unavailable, 1 obsolete combination)
Fossil: 7 valid species (1 synonym)