• Menozzi, 1942a: 172 (q.)
• Combination in Xiphomyrmex: Wheeler, 1922: 907; Emery, 1924f: 287.
• Combination in Hylidris: Weber, 1952a: 17.
• Combination in Pristomyrmex: Santschi, 1916a: 51; Arnold, 1926: 280; Bolton, 1981b: 285.
• Status as species: Arnold, 1917: 348; Wheeler, 1922: 907; Santschi, 1923e: 286; Emery, 1924f: 287; Arnold, 1926: 280; Menozzi, 1942a: 172; Eidmann, 1944: 453; Weber, 1952a: 17; Bolton, 1981b: 285 (redescription); Bolton, 1995b: 365; Wang, 2003a: 406 (redescription).

Obsolete combinations

• Tetramorium fossulatum

Citations

• Arnold, G. 1917. A monograph of the Formicidae of South Africa. Part III. Myrmicinae. Annals of the South African Museum 14:271-402. PDF
• Arnold, G. 1926. A monograph of the Formicidae of South Africa. Appendix. Annals of the South African Museum 23:191-295. PDF
• Bolton, B. 1981b. A revision of six minor genera of Myrmicinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Ethiopian zoogeographical region. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology 43:245-307. PDF
• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Eidmann, H. 1944. Die Ameisenfauna von Fernando Poo. 27. Beitrag zu den Ergebnissen der Westafrika-Expedition. Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik, Ökologie und Geographie der Tiere 76:413-490. PDF
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• Forel, A. 1910f. Note sur quelques fourmis d'Afrique. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 54:421-458. PDF
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• Santschi, F. 1916a. Description d'un nouveau Formicide (Hym.) de l'Afrique occidentale. Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France 1916:50-51. PDF
• Santschi, F. 1923e. Descriptions de nouveaux Formicides éthiopiens et notes diverses. I. Revue Zoologique Africaine (Brussels) 11:259-295. PDF
• Wang, M. 2003a. A monographic revision of the ant genus Pristomyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 157:383-542. PDF
• Weber, N. A. 1952a. Studies on African Myrmicinae, I (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). American Museum Novitates 1548:1-32. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.