• Santschi, 1911g: 207 (m.); Forel, 1913c: 352 (q.); Emery, 1912b: 97 (l.); Wheeler & Bailey, 1920: 258 (l.); Wheeler, 1922: 116 (l.); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1956: 392 (l.)
• Combination in Sima: Emery, 1893m: 53.
• Combination in Sima (Pachysima): Emery, 1912b: 97; Emery, 1921c: 23.
• Combination in Pachysima: Wheeler, 1918c: 305; Wheeler, 1922: 114.
• Combination in Tetraponera: Ward, 1990: 487.
• Status as species: Dalla Torre, 1893: 53; Santschi, 1911g: 207; Emery, 1912b: 97; Forel, 1913b: 315; Forel, 1913c: 352; Forel, 1913f: 668; Forel, 1913i: 350; Forel, 1916: 403; Arnold, 1916: 174; Emery, 1921c: 23; Wheeler, 1922: 114, 801; Santschi, 1937b: 98; Menozzi, 1942a: 166; Eidmann, 1944: 439, 469; Bolton, 1995b: 416; Ward, 2022: 61 (diagnosis).
• Senior synonym of Tetraponera spininoda: Emery, 1912b: 97; Emery, 1921c: 23; Wheeler, 1922: 801; Bolton, 1995b: 416; Ward, 2022: 61.

Junior synonyms

• Tetraponera spininoda (André, 1892)
  Obsolete combination(s): Sima spininoda

Obsolete combinations

• Sima aethiops

Citations

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