• Subspecies of Tetramorium occidentale: Santschi, 1935a: 268.
• Junior synonym of Tetramorium occidentale: Bolton, 1980: 229; Bolton, 1995b: 404.
• Status as species: Hita Garcia et al., 2010b: 43 (redescription).

Obsolete combinations

• Xiphomyrmex occidentalis akengensis

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1980. The ant tribe Tetramoriini (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). The genus Tetramorium Mayr in the Ethiopian zoogeographical region. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology 40:193-384. PDF
• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Hita Garcia, F.; Fischer, G.; Peters, M. K. 2010b. Taxonomy of the Tetramorium weitzeckeri species group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Afrotropical zoogeographical region. Zootaxa 2704:1-90. PDF
• Santschi, F. 1935a. Fourmis du Musée du Congo Belge. Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines 27:254-285. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.