• Combination in Sima (Tetraponera): Emery, 1921c: 28
• Combination in Tetraponera: Wheeler, 1922k: 1016
• Subspecies of Tetraponera sahlbergii: Emery, 1921c: 28; Wheeler, 1922: 1016; Santschi, 1930a: 58; Bolton, 1995b: 418.
• Status as species: Chomicki et al., 2015: fig. S1; Ward, 2022: 40 (diagnosis).
• Senior synonym of Tetraponera sahlbergii deplanata: Ward, 2022: 40.

Junior synonyms

• Tetraponera sahlbergii deplanata (Forel, 1904)
  Obsolete combination(s): Sima sahlbergii deplanata

Obsolete combinations

• Sima sahlbergii longula

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. 1895g. Mission scientifique de M. Ch. Alluaud dans le territoire de Diego-Suarez (Madagascar-nord) (Avril-août 1893). Formicides. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 39:336-345. PDF
• Emery, C. 1921c. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [part]. Genera Insectorum 174A:1-94 + 7 plates. PDF
• Santschi, F. 1930a. Description de Formicides éthiopiens nouveaux ou peu connus. V. Bulletin et Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 70:49-77. 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. 1922k. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. A contribution to the myrmecology of Africa. IX. A synonymic list of the ants of the Malagasy region. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 45:1005-1055. PDF