• Lectotype designation: Hita Garcia & Fisher, 2012b: 26.
• Combination in Xiphomyrmex: Wheeler, 1922: 1031.
• Combination in Tetramorium: Bolton, 1979: 143.
• Status as species: Dalla Torre, 1893: 130; Wheeler, 1922: 1031; Emery, 1924f: 287; Bolton, 1979: 143 (redescription); Bolton, 1995b: 404; Hita Garcia & Fisher, 2012b: 26 (redescription).
• Senior synonym of Tetramorium robustior: Hita Garcia & Fisher, 2012b: 26.

Junior synonyms

• Tetramorium robustior Forel, 1892
  Obsolete combination(s): Tetramorium andrei robustior

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1979. The ant tribe Tetramoriini (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). The genus Tetramorium Mayr in the Malagasy region and in the New World. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology 38:129-181. PDF
• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Dalla Torre, K. W. 1893. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp. PDF
• Emery, C. 1924f ("1922"). Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [concl.]. Genera Insectorum 174C:207-397. PDF
• Forel, A. 1892o. Les Formicides. [concl.]. In: Grandidier, A. 1892. Histoire physique, naturelle, et politique de Madagascar. Volume XX. Histoire naturelle des Hyménoptères. Deuxième partie. Supplèment au 28e fascicule. Paris: Hachette et Cie, pp. 229-280. PDF
• Hita Garcia, F.; Fisher, B. L. 2012b. The ant genus Tetramorium Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Malagasy region—taxonomic revision of the T. kelleri and T. tortuosum species groups. Zootaxa 3592:1-85. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.