• Status as species: Bernard, 1950c: 290.
• Junior synonym of Tetramorium sericeiventre: Bolton, 1976: 363; Bolton, 1980: 333; Bolton, 1995b: 409; Hita Garcia & Fisher, 2011: 35.

Obsolete combinations

• Atopula hortensis

Citations

• Bernard, F. 1948. Les insectes sociaux du Fezzân. Comportement et biogéographie. Pp. 87-200 in: Bernard, F.; Peyerimhoff, P. de 1948. Mission scientifique du Fezzân (1944-1945). Tome V. Zoologie. Alger: Institut de Recherches Sahariennes de l'Université d'Alger, 248 pp. PDF
• Bernard, F. 1950c. Contribution à l'étude de l'Aïr. Hyménoptères Formicidae. Mémoires de l'Institut Français d'Afrique Noire 10:284-294. PDF
• Bolton, B. 1976. The ant tribe Tetramoriini (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Constituent genera, review of smaller genera and revision of Triglyphothrix Forel. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology 34:281-379. 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.
• Hita Garcia, F.; Fisher, B. L. 2011. The ant genus Tetramorium Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Malagasy region — introduction, definition of species groups, and revision of the T. bicarinatum, T. obesum, T. sericeiventre and T. tosii species groups. Zootaxa 3039:1-72. PDF