• Combination in Sima (Tetraponera): Emery, 1921c: 28.
• Combination in Tetraponera: Wheeler, 1922j: 800.
• Subspecies of Tetraponera penzigi: Wheeler, 1922: 800; Bolton, 1995b: 417.
• Status as species: Chomicki et al., 2015: fig. S2; Ward, 2022: 27 (diagnosis).
• Senior synonym of Tetraponera claveaui: Ward, 2022: 27.

Junior synonyms

• Tetraponera claveaui (Santschi, 1913)
  Obsolete combination(s): Sima claveaui

Obsolete combinations

• Sima penzigi continua

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Chomicki, G.; Ward, P. S.; Renner, S. S. 2015. Macroevolutionary assembly of ant/plant symbioses: Pseudomyrmex ants and their ant-housing plants in the Neotropics. Proceedings of the Royal Society. Series B. 282 (1819):20152200, 55 pp. 10.1098/rspb.2015.2200 PDF
• Emery, C. 1921c. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [part]. Genera Insectorum 174A:1-94 + 7 plates. PDF
• Forel, A. 1907f. Fourmis d'Ethiopie récoltées par M. le baron Maurice de Rothschild en 1905. Revue d'Entomologie (Caen) 26:129-144. PDF
• Ward, P. S. 2022. The ant genus Tetraponera (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Afrotropical region: taxonomic review and key to species. Zootaxa 5102 (1):1-70. 10.11646/zootaxa.5102.1.1 PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.
• Wheeler, W. M. 1922j. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. A contribution to the myrmecology of Africa. VIII. A synonymic list of the ants of the Ethiopian region. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 45:711-1004. PDF