• [First available use of Tetramorium caespitum caespitum syriacum Emery, 1909f; unavailable (infrasubspecific) name.]
• Subspecies of Tetramorium caespitum: Emery, 1925a: 179 (in text).
• Subspecies of Tetramorium semilaeve: Santschi, 1934d: 279; Aktaç, 1977: 123.
• Status as species: Collingwood, 1985: 265; Kugler, 1988: 257; Bolton, 1995b: 415; Collingwood & Agosti, 1996: 335; Sanetra et al., 1999: 335 (in text); Csősz et al., 2007: 34 (redescription); Gratiashvili & Barjadze, 2008: 144; Kiran & Karaman, 2012: 29; Sharaf et al., 2012: 8 (in key); Borowiec, 2014: 205; Sharaf et al., 2024: 1767.

Obsolete combinations

• Tetramorium caespitum syriacum
• Tetramorium semilaeve syriacum

Citations

• Aktaç, N. 1977 ("1976"). Studies on the myrmecofauna of Turkey I. Ants of Siirt, Bodrum and Trabzon. Istanbul Universitesi Fen Fakultesi Mecmuasi. Seri B 41:115-135. PDF
• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Borowiec, L. 2014. Catalogue of ants of Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and adjacent regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 25 (1-2):1-340. PDF
• Collingwood, C. A. 1985. Hymenoptera: Fam. Formicidae of Saudi Arabia. Fauna of Saudi Arabia 7:230-302. PDF
• Collingwood, C. A.; Agosti, D. 1996. Formicidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera) of Saudi Arabia (part 2). Fauna of Saudi Arabia 15:300-385. PDF
• Csősz, S.; Radchenko, A.; Schulz, A. 2007. Taxonomic revision of the Palaearctic Tetramorium chefketi species complex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 1405:1-38. PDF
• Emery, C. 1924f ("1922"). Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [concl.]. Genera Insectorum 174C:207-397. PDF
• Emery, C. 1925a ("1924"). Notes critiques de myrmécologie. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 64:177-191. PDF
• Gratiashvili, N.; Barjadze, S. 2008. Checklist of the ants (Formicidae Latreille, 1809) of Georgia. Proceedings of the Institute of Zoology (Tbilisi) 23:130-146. PDF
• Kiran, K.; Karaman, C. 2012. First annotated checklist of the ant fauna of Turkey (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 3548:1-38. PDF
• Kugler, J. 1988. The zoogeography of Israel. 9. The zoogeography of social insects of Israel and Sinai. Monographiae Biologicae 62:251-275. PDF
• Sanetra, M.; Güsten, R.; Schulz, A. 1999. On the taxonomy and distribution of Italian Tetramorium species and their social parasites (Hymenoptera Formicidae). Memorie della Società Entomologica Italiana 77:317-357. PDF
• Santschi, F. 1934d. Fourmis d'une croisière. Bulletin et Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 74:273-282. PDF
• Sharaf, M. R.; Aldawood, A. S.; Taylor, B. 2012. A new ant species of the genus Tetramorium Mayr, 1855 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Saudi Arabia, with a revised key to the Arabian species. PLoS ONE 7 (2):e30811. 10.1371/journal.pone.0030811 PDF
• Sharaf, M. R.; Wetterer, J. K.; Mohamed, A. M. A.; Georgiadis, C.; Nasser, M. G.; Aldawood, A. S. 2024. Filling gaps in global myrmecology: ants of the Kingdom of Bahrain (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of Natural History 58 (41-44):1705-1786. [online early] 10.1080/00222933.2024.2388791 PDF