• Combination in Tetramorium: Bolton, 1979: 161
• Subspecies of Tetramorium spinosum: Emery, 1924f: 288; Cole, 1937b: 136; Smith, 1938a: 129 (redescription); Creighton, 1950a: 293; Smith, 1951c: 824; Smith, 1979: 1401.
• Status as species: Bolton, 1979: 161 (redescription); Bolton, 1995b: 408; Mackay & Mackay, 2002: 243; Vásquez-Bolaños, 2007b: 96 (in key); Vásquez-Bolaños et al., 2011: 454 (in key).

Obsolete combinations

• Xiphomyrmex spinosus hispidus

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.
• Cole, A. C., Jr. 1937b. An annotated list of the ants of Arizona (Hym.: Formicidae). [concl.]. Entomological News 48:134-140. PDF
• Creighton, W. S. 1950a. The ants of North America. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 104:1-585. PDF
• Emery, C. 1924f ("1922"). Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [concl.]. Genera Insectorum 174C:207-397. PDF
• Mackay, W.; Mackay, E. 2002. The ants of New Mexico (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 400 pp. PDF
• Smith, D. R. 1979. Superfamily Formicoidea. Pp. 1323-1467 in: Krombein, K. V.; Hurd, P. D.; Smith, D. R.; Burks, B. D. (eds.) 1979. Catalog of Hymenoptera in America north of Mexico. Volume 2. Apocrita (Aculeata). Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. i-xvi, 1199-2209.
• Smith, M. R. 1938a. A study of the North American ants of the genus Xiphomyrmex Forel. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 28:126-130. PDF
• Smith, M. R. 1951c. Family Formicidae. Pp. 778-875 in: Muesebeck, C. F. W.; Krombein, K. V.; Townes, H. K. (eds.) 1951. Hymenoptera of America north of Mexico. Synoptic catalogue. United States Department of Agriculture. Agriculture Monograph 2:1-1420. PDF
• Vásquez-Bolaños, M. 2007b. Una especie nueva del género Tetramorium Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) de Mascota, Jalisco, México. Dugesiana 14:93-97. PDF
• Vásquez-Bolaños, M.; Castaño-Meneses, G.; Guzmán-Mendoza, R. 2011. New species of Tetramorium Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Puebla state, Mexico. Neotropical Entomology 40:452-455. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1915b. Some additions to the North American ant-fauna. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 34:389-421. PDF