• Subspecies of Tapinoma gracile Forel, 1913a: Wheeler, 1922: 924; Shattuck, 1994: 145.
• Status as species: Arnold, 1926: 222; Bolton, 1995b: 400; Bharti et al., 2013: 304 (in key).

Obsolete combinations

• Tapinoma gracile lugubre

Citations

• Arnold, G. 1926. A monograph of the Formicidae of South Africa. Appendix. Annals of the South African Museum 23:191-295. PDF
• Bharti, H.; Kumar, R.; Dubovikoff, D. A. 2013. A new species of the genus Tapinoma Foerster, 1850 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from India. Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 9 (2):303-304. PDF
• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Santschi, F. 1917b ("1916"). Fourmis nouvelles de la Colonie du Cap, du Natal et de Rhodesia. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 85:279-296. PDF
• Shattuck, S. O. 1994. Taxonomic catalog of the ant subfamilies Aneuretinae and Dolichoderinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). University of California Publications in Entomology 112:i-xix, 1-241. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.