• Meinert, 1861: 331 (m.); Roger, 1861b: 172 (m.)
• Combination in Tetramorium: Bolton, 1979: 169
• Junior synonym of Tetramorium simillimum: Roger, 1862c: 297; Roger, 1863b: 27; Mayr, 1863a: 456; André, 1874c: 203 (in list); Mayr, 1876: 98; Emery & Forel, 1879: 467; Dalla Torre, 1893: 134; Forel, 1895b: 126; Wheeler, 1908a: 143; Wheeler, 1911g: 174; Arnold, 1917: 326; Wheeler, 1919d: 274; Wheeler, 1919f: 91; Wheeler, 1922: 904; Emery, 1924f: 279; Menozzi & Russo, 1930: 161; Kempf, 1972b: 250; Pisarski, 1975: 26; Bolton, 1977: 131.
• Status as species: Meinert, 1861: 331; Roger, 1861b: 172; Bolton, 1979: 169 (redescription); Bolton, 1980: 310 (redescription); Collingwood, 1985: 263; Taylor, 1987a: 78; Deyrup et al., 1989: 97; Brandão, 1991: 381; Bolton, 1995b: 405; Collingwood & Agosti, 1996: 334; Cagniant, 1997: 91; Radchenko et al., 1998: 111; Deyrup et al., 2000: 298; Czechowski et al., 2002: 68; Deyrup, 2003: 47; Collingwood et al., 2004: 481; Wetterer & Wetterer, 2004: 215; Cagniant, 2006: 196; Gómez & Espadaler, 2006: 231; Wetterer et al., 2007: 31; Wetterer et al., 2007: 27; Bharti & Kumar, 2012b: 21 (redescription); Czechowski et al., 2012: 183; Sarnat & Economo, 2012: 139; Sharaf et al., 2012: 8 (in key); Hita Garcia et al., 2013: 217; Borowiec, 2014: 196; Ramage, 2014: 168; Bezděčková et al., 2015: 122; Wetterer & Hita Garcia, 2015: 93; Bharti et al., 2016: 45; Lebas et al., 2016: 380; Wetterer et al., 2016: 20; Agavekar et al., 2017: 9; Sharaf et al., 2017: 38; Deyrup, 2017: 151; Sharaf et al., 2018: 32; Wagner et al., 2018: 4 (in list); Fernández & Serna, 2019: 827; Lubertazzi, 2019: 191; Sharaf et al., 2022: 77; Herrera et al., 2024: 195.
• Senior synonym of Tetramorium pusillum hemisi: Bolton, 1979: 169; Bolton, 1980: 310; Bolton, 1995b: 405.
• Senior synonym of Tetramorium minutum: Bolton, 1979: 169; Bolton, 1980: 310; Bolton, 1995b: 405.

Junior synonyms

• Tetramorium minutum Donisthorpe, 1942
• Tetramorium pusillum hemisi Wheeler, 1922

Obsolete combinations

• Tetrogmus caldarius

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