• [First available use of Tetramorium caespitum inerme armatum Emery, 1925a; unavailable (infrasubspecific) name.]
• Subspecies of Tetramorium inerme: Santschi, 1927b: 57; Dlussky, 1962: 179; Pisarski, 1967a: 402; Pisarski, 1970a: 319.
• Status as species: Pisarski & Krzysztofiak, 1981: 158; Dlussky & Zabelin, 1985: 232; Dlussky et al., 1990: 200; Radchenko, 1992a: 47 (in key); Radchenko, 1992b: 53; Bolton, 1995b: 404; Schultz et al., 2006: 206; Pfeiffer et al., 2007: 5; Paknia et al., 2010: 35; Borowiec, 2014: 194.
• Senior synonym of Tetramorium caespitum annauensis: Radchenko, 1992b: 53; Bolton, 1995b: 404.
• Senior synonym of Tetramorium caespitum brevinodis: Radchenko, 1992b: 53; Bolton, 1995b: 404.
• Material of the unavailable name Tetramorium inerme armatum ligatum referred here by Radchenko, 1992b: 53.

Junior synonyms

• Tetramorium caespitum annauensis Karavaiev, 1931
• Tetramorium caespitum brevinodis Karavaiev, 1927

Obsolete combinations

• Tetramorium inerme armatum

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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• Dlussky, G. M. 1962. Ants of the northern slopes of the Talasskii Alatau range. [In Russian.]. Trudy Instituta Zoologii. Akademiya Nauk Kazakhskoi SSR 18:177-188. PDF
• Dlussky, G. M.; Soyunov, O. S.; Zabelin, S. I. 1990. Ants of Turkmenistan. [In Russian.]. Ashkabad: Ylym Press, 273 pp. PDF
• Dlussky, G. M.; Zabelin, S. I. 1985. Ant fauna (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of the River Sumbar Basin (south-west Kopetdag). [In Russian.]. Pp. 208-246 in: Nechaevaya, N. T. (ed.) 1985. The vegetation and animal world of western Kopetdag. [In Russian.]. Ashkhabad: Ylym, 278 pp. PDF
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• Pisarski, B.; Krzysztofiak, L. 1981. Myrmicidae und Formicidae (Hymenoptera) aus der Mongolei, II. Folia Entomologica Hungarica 42:155-166. PDF
• Radchenko, A. G. 1992a. Ants of the genus Tetramorium (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of the USSR fauna. Report 1. [In Russian.]. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 71(8):39-49. PDF
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• Santschi, F. 1927b. A propos du Tetramorium caespitum L. Folia Myrmecologica et Termitologica 1:52-58. PDF
• Schultz, R.; Radchenko, A.; Seifert, B. 2006. A critical checklist of the ants of Kyrgyzstan (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Myrmecologische Nachrichten 8:201-207. PDF