• Combination in Tetraponera: Chapman & Capco, 1951: 80
• Status as species: Chapman & Capco, 1951: 80; Bolton, 1995b: 417.
• Junior synonym of Tetraponera difficilis: Ward, 2001: 628

Obsolete combinations

• Sima dilatata

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Chapman, J. W.; Capco, S. R. 1951. Check list of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Asia. Monographs of the Institute of Science and Technology. Manila 1:1-327. PDF
• Karavaiev, V. 1933c. Ameisen aus dem Indo-Australischen Gebiet, VII. (Schluss). Konowia 12:260-271. PDF
• Ward, P. S. 2001. Taxonomy, phylogeny and biogeography of the ant genus Tetraponera (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Oriental and Australian regions. Invertebrate Taxonomy 15:589-665. PDF