• [Misspelled as foveolata by Santschi, 1912b: 162.]
• Menozzi, 1926a: 37 (q.)
• Combination in Sima (Tetraponera): Arnold, 1916: 184; Emery, 1921c: 27.
• Combination in Tetraponera: Wheeler, 1922: 796.
• Status as species: Mayr, 1904b: 4; Arnold, 1916: 184; Emery, 1921c: 27; Wheeler, 1922: 796; Menozzi, 1926a: 37; Menozzi, 1930b: 81; Santschi, 1935b: 266; Finzi, 1936: 157; Collingwood, 1985: 240; Kugler, 1988: 256; Bolton, 1995b: 417; Collingwood & Agosti, 1996: 312; Taylor & McGavin, 2020: 14.
• Junior synonym of Tetraponera ambigua: Ward, 2006: 123; Collingwood et al., 2011: 421; Ward, 2022: 44.

Obsolete combinations

• Sima bifoveolata

Citations

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