• [Junior secondary homonym of Tetramorium africanum Mayr, 1866a.]
• Combination in Temnothorax: Ward et al., 2015: 75.
• Combination in Tetramorium: Báthori et al., 2024: 8.
• Status as species: Kutter, 1973f: 289; Buschinger, 1989a: 266; Schulz, 1994b: 432; Bolton, 1995b: 188; Borowiec, 2014: 136; Báthori et al., 2024: 8.
• Replacement name: Tetramorium epimyrmoide Báthori et al., 2024.

Obsolete combinations

• Epimyrma africana
• Temnothorax africanus

Citations

• Báthori, F.; Seifert, B.; Heinze, J.; Kiran, K.; Karaman, C.; Csősz, S. 2024. Taxonomy of the Palearctic socially parasitic Temnothorax (Myrmoxenus) ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). PLoS ONE 19 (10): e0308712:1-49. 10.1371/journal.pone.0308712 PDF
• Bernard, F. 1948. Les insectes sociaux du Fezzân. Comportement et biogéographie. Pp. 87-200 in: Bernard, F.; Peyerimhoff, P. de 1948. Mission scientifique du Fezzân (1944-1945). Tome V. Zoologie. Alger: Institut de Recherches Sahariennes de l'Université d'Alger, 248 pp. PDF
• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Borowiec, L. 2014. Catalogue of ants of Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and adjacent regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 25 (1-2):1-340. PDF
• Buschinger, A. 1989a. Evolution, speciation, and inbreeding in the parasitic ant genus Epimyrma (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Journal of Evolutionary Biology 2:265-283. PDF
• Kutter, H. 1973f. Beitrag zur Lösung taxonomischer Probleme in der Gattung Epimyrma (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 46:281-289. PDF
• Schulz, A. 1994b. Epimyrma birgitae nova species, eine sozialparasitische Ameisenart (Hym.: Formicidae) auf Teneriffa (Kanarische Inseln, Spanien). Beiträge zur Entomologie 44:431-440. PDF
• Ward, P. S.; Brady, S. G.; Fisher, B. L.; Schultz, T. R. 2015. The evolution of myrmicine ants: phylogeny and biogeography of a hyperdiverse ant clade (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Systematic Entomology 40:61-81. 10.1111/syen.12090 PDF