• Lectotype designation: Bolton, 1979: 163.
• Cole, 1957c: 209 (m.); Taber & Cokendolpher, 1988: 95 (k.)
• Combination in Tetramorium: Bolton, 1979: 163
• Status as species: Forel, 1899b: 53; Wheeler, 1910a: 567; Wheeler, 1915b: 415; Emery, 1924f: 288; Smith, 1938a: 127 (redescription); Creighton, 1950a: 293; Brown, 1957d: 7; Hunt & Snelling, 1975: 22; Bolton, 1979: 163 (redescription); Bolton, 1995b: 414; Mackay & Mackay, 2002: 244; Ward, 2005: 37; Vásquez-Bolaños, 2007b: 96 (in key); Vásquez-Bolaños et al., 2011: 454 (in key).
• Senior synonym of Tetramorium spinosum insons: Bolton, 1979: 163; Bolton, 1995b: 414.
• Senior synonym of Tetramorium wheeleri: Bolton, 1979: 163; Bolton, 1995b: 414.

Junior synonyms

• Tetramorium spinosum insons (Wheeler, 1915)
  Obsolete combination(s): Xiphomyrmex spinosus insons
• Tetramorium wheeleri Forel, 1901

Obsolete combinations

• Xiphomyrmex spinosus

Citations

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• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Brown, W. L., Jr. 1957d. Is the ant genus Tetramorium native in North America? Breviora 72:1-8. PDF
• Cole, A. C., Jr. 1957c. Descriptions of sexual castes of some ants in the genera Myrmica, Manica and Xiphomyrmex from the western United States (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of the Tennessee Academy of Science 32:208-213. PDF
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• Hunt, J. H.; Snelling, R. R. 1975. A checklist of the ants of Arizona. Journal of the Arizona Academy of Science 10:20-23. PDF
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• Pergande, T. 1896. Mexican Formicidae. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences (2)5:858-896. PDF
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• Taber, S. W.; Cokendolpher, J. C. 1988. Karyotypes of a dozen ant species from the southwestern U.S.A. (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Caryologia 41:93-102. 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
• Ward, P. S. 2005. A synoptic review of the ants of California (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 936:1-68. PDF
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• Wheeler, W. M. 1915b. Some additions to the North American ant-fauna. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 34:389-421. PDF