• [Junior secondary homonym of Tetramorium pauper Forel, 1907d.]
• Combination in Tetramorium (Triglyphothrix): Arnold, 1926: 273.
• Status as species: Wheeler, 1922: 911; Emery, 1924f: 274; Arnold, 1926: 273; Bolton, 1976: 333 (redescription); Bolton, 1985: 245.
• Replacement name: Tetramorium ericae Arnold, 1917
• [Note: Tetramorium ericae Arnold, 1917 (date of publication 9.viii.1917) junior synonym of Tetramorium pauper Santschi, 1917b (date of publication 10.i.1917) (synonymy by Bolton, 1976: 333); hence Tetramorium ericae Arnold, 1917 first available replacement name (Bolton, 1995b: 407).]

Obsolete combinations

• Triglyphothrix pauper

Citations

• Arnold, G. 1926. A monograph of the Formicidae of South Africa. Appendix. Annals of the South African Museum 23:191-295. 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. 1985. The ant genus Triglyphothrix Forel a synonym of Tetramorium Mayr. (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of Natural History 19:243-248. 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
• Santschi, F. 1917b ("1916"). Fourmis nouvelles de la Colonie du Cap, du Natal et de Rhodesia. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 85:279-296. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.