• Santschi, 1919j: 288 (w.m.); Wheeler & Bailey, 1920: 259 (l.); Wheeler, 1922: 121 (l.); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1956: 396 (l.)
• Combination in Pachysima: Wheeler, 1918c: 305.
• Combination in Tetraponera: Ward, 1990: 488.
• Status as species: Forel, 1913i: 350; Santschi, 1919j: 288; Emery, 1921c: 23; Wheeler, 1922: 120 (redescription), 801; Bolton, 1995b: 418; Ward, 2022: 62 (diagnosis).

Obsolete combinations

• Sima latifrons

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Emery, C. 1912b. Études sur les Myrmicinae. [I-IV.]. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 56:94-105. PDF
• Emery, C. 1921c. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [part]. Genera Insectorum 174A:1-94 + 7 plates. PDF
• Forel, A. 1913i. Quelques fourmis du Musée du Congo Belge (1). Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 57:347-359. PDF
• Santschi, F. 1919j. Fam. Formicidae. P. 290 in: Vitalis de Salvaza, R. 1919. Essai d'un traité d'entomologie indochinoise. Hanoi: Impr. Minsang, xi + 308 pp.
• Ward, P. S. 1990. The ant subfamily Pseudomyrmecinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): generic revision and relationship to other formicids. Systematic Entomology 15:449-489. 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, G. C.; Wheeler, J. 1956. The ant larvae of the subfamily Pseudomyrmecinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 49:374-398. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1918c. A study of some ant larvae, with a consideration of the origin and meaning of the social habit among insects. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 57:293-343. 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.; Bailey, I. W. 1920. The feeding habits of pseudomyrmine and other ants. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society (2)22:235-279. PDF