• [First available use of Tetramorium caespitum punicum nitidissimum Emery, 1925a; unavailable (infrasubspecific) name.]
• Subspecies of Tetramorium punicum: Pisarski, 1967a: 402; Dlussky, 1981b: 17; Dlussky & Zabelin, 1985: 232.
• Status as species: Dlussky et al., 1990: 206; Radchenko, 1992a: 47 (in key); Radchenko, 1992b: 54; Bolton, 1995b: 412; Collingwood & Heatwole, 2002: 10; Guénard & Dunn, 2012: 57.

Obsolete combinations

• Tetramorium punicum nitidissimum

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Collingwood, C.; Heatwole, H. 2002 ("2000"). Ants from northwestern China (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Psyche (Cambridge) 103:1-24. PDF
• Dlussky, G. M. 1981b. Desert ants. [In Russian.]. Moskva: Nauka, 230 pp. 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
• Guénard, B.; Dunn, R. R. 2012. A checklist of the ants of China. Zootaxa 3358:1-77. PDF
• Pisarski, B. 1967a. Fourmis (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) d'Afghanistan récoltées par M. Dr. K. Lindberg. Annales Zoologici (Warsaw) 24:375-425. 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
• Radchenko, A. G. 1992b. Ants of the genus Tetramorium (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of the USSR fauna. Report 2. [In Russian.]. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 71(8):50-58. PDF