• Arnold, 1917: 299 (q.m.); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1989a: 325 (l.)
• Status as species: Arnold, 1917: 298; Wheeler, 1922: 897; Emery, 1924f: 281; Arnold, 1926: 245 (in key); Bolton, 1980: 361 (redescription); Bolton, 1995b: 410.

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. 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.
• Emery, C. 1924f ("1922"). Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [concl.]. Genera Insectorum 174C:207-397. PDF
• Santschi, F. 1916b ("1915"). Descriptions de fourmis nouvelles d'Afrique et d'Amérique. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 84:497-513. PDF
• Wheeler, G. C.; Wheeler, J. 1989a ("1988"). Notes on ant larvae: Myrmicinae. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 114:319-327. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.