• Combination in Tetramorium: Bolton, 1980: 229
• Status as species: Wheeler, 1922: 194, 907; Emery, 1924f: 287; Bernard, 1953b: 251; Bolton, 1980: 229 (redescription); Bolton, 1995b: 412; Hita Garcia et al., 2010b: 56 (redescription).
• Senior synonym of Tetramorium insularis: Bolton, 1980: 229; Bolton, 1995b: 412; Hita Garcia et al., 2010b: 56.

Junior synonyms

• Tetramorium insularis (Menozzi, 1924)
  Obsolete combination(s): Xiphomyrmex insularis

Obsolete combinations

• Xiphomyrmex occidentalis

Citations

• Bernard, F. 1953b ("1952"). La réserve naturelle intégrale du Mt Nimba. XI. Hyménoptères Formicidae. Mémoires de l'Institut Français d'Afrique Noire 19:165-270. 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.
• Emery, C. 1924f ("1922"). Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [concl.]. Genera Insectorum 174C:207-397. PDF
• Hita Garcia, F.; Fischer, G.; Peters, M. K. 2010b. Taxonomy of the Tetramorium weitzeckeri species group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Afrotropical zoogeographical region. Zootaxa 2704:1-90. PDF
• Santschi, F. 1916a. Description d'un nouveau Formicide (Hym.) de l'Afrique occidentale. Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France 1916:50-51. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.