• Viehmeyer, 1916a: 118 (m.)
• Combination in Sima (Tetraponera): Viehmeyer, 1916a: 118; Emery, 1921c: 26.
• Combination in Tetraponera: Chapman & Capco, 1951: 79.
• Status as species: Bingham, 1903: 115.
• Subspecies of Tetraponera difficilis: Forel, 1903a: 710; Viehmeyer, 1916a: 118; Emery, 1921c: 26; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 79; Ward, 1990: 488; Bolton, 1995b: 418; Tiwari, 1999: 36.
• Junior synonym of Tetraponera nitida: Ward, 2001: 636

Obsolete combinations

• Sima difficilis longiceps

Citations

• Bingham, C. T. 1903. The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Hymenoptera, Vol. II. Ants and Cuckoo-wasps. London: Taylor and Francis, 506 pp. PDF
• 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
• Emery, C. 1921c. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [part]. Genera Insectorum 174A:1-94 + 7 plates. PDF
• Forel, A. 1902c. Myrmicinae nouveaux de l'Inde et de Ceylan. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 10:165-249. PDF
• Forel, A. 1903a. Les Formicides de l'Empire des Indes et de Ceylan. Part X. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 14:679-715. PDF
• Tiwari, R. N. 1999. Taxonomic studies on ants of southern India (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Memoirs of the Zoological Survey of India 18(4):1-96. PDF
• Viehmeyer, H. 1916a ("1915"). Ameisen von Singapore. Beobachtet und gesammelt von H. Overbeck. Archiv für Naturgeschichte (A)81(8):108-168. PDF
• 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. 2001. Taxonomy, phylogeny and biogeography of the ant genus Tetraponera (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Oriental and Australian regions. Invertebrate Taxonomy 15:589-665. PDF