• Subspecies of Tetramorium titus: Arnold, 1958: 123.
• Status as species: Bolton, 1980: 256 (redescription); Bolton, 1995b: 408.
• Senior synonym of Tetramorium akermani drakensbergensis: Bolton, 1980: 256; Bolton, 1995b: 408.

Junior synonyms

• Tetramorium akermani drakensbergensis Arnold, 1926

Obsolete combinations

• Tetramorium akermani frigidum

Citations

• Arnold, G. 1926. A monograph of the Formicidae of South Africa. Appendix. Annals of the South African Museum 23:191-295. PDF
• Arnold, G. 1958. New species of African Hymenoptera. No. 13. Occasional Papers of the National Museum of Southern Rhodesia. B. Natural Sciences 3:119-143. PDF
• Bolton, B. 1980. The ant tribe Tetramoriini (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). The genus Tetramorium Mayr in the Ethiopian zoogeographical region. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology 40:193-384. PDF
• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.