• Combination in Sima (Sima): Emery, 1921c: 24.
• Combination in Tetraponera: Wheeler, 1922b: 106
• Status as species: Dalla Torre, 1893: 54; Mayr, 1895: 146; Emery, 1895b: 178; Emery, 1895i: 23; Stitz, 1910: 131; Santschi, 1914d: 334; Forel, 1916: 403; Santschi, 1920b: 10; Emery, 1921c: 24; Wheeler, 1922: 106, 798; Karavaiev, 1931d: 42; Menozzi, 1933a: 101; Bernard, 1953b: 221; Bolton, 1995b: 418; Hita Garcia et al., 2013: 222; Ward, 2022: 50 (diagnosis).
• Senior synonym of Tetraponera mocquerysi biozellata: Ward, 2022: 51.
• Senior synonym of Tetraponera mocquerysi elongata: Ward, 2022: 51.
• Senior synonym of Tetraponera emacerata: Ward, 2022: 51.
• Senior synonym of Tetraponera triangularis illota: Ward, 2022: 51.
• Senior synonym of Tetraponera ledouxi: Ward, 2022: 51.
• Senior synonym of Tetraponera lemoulti: Ward, 2022: 51.
• Senior synonym of Tetraponera mocquerysi lepida: Ward, 2022: 51.
• Senior synonym of Tetraponera monardi: Ward, 2022: 51.
• Senior synonym of Tetraponera emacerata oberbecki: Ward, 2022: 51.
• Senior synonym of Tetraponera emacerata odiosa: Ward, 2022: 51.

Junior synonyms

• Tetraponera emacerata (Santschi, 1911)
  Obsolete combination(s): Sima mocquerysi emacerata
• Tetraponera emacerata oberbecki (Forel, 1911)
  Obsolete combination(s): Sima oberbecki
• Tetraponera emacerata odiosa (Forel, 1916)
  Obsolete combination(s): Sima prelli odiosa
• Tetraponera ledouxi Terron, 1969
• Tetraponera lemoulti (Santschi, 1920)
  Obsolete combination(s): Sima lemoulti
• Tetraponera mocquerysi biozellata (Karavaiev, 1931)
  Obsolete combination(s): Sima mocquerysi biozellata
• Tetraponera mocquerysi elongata (Stitz, 1911)
  Obsolete combination(s): Sima mocquerysi elongata
• Tetraponera mocquerysi lepida Wheeler, 1922
• Tetraponera monardi (Santschi, 1937)
  Obsolete combination(s): Sima monardi
• Tetraponera triangularis illota (Santschi, 1914)
  Obsolete combination(s): Sima triangularis illota

Obsolete combinations

• Sima mocquerysi

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