• [Also described as new by Forel, 1903h: 560.]
• Subspecies of Tetramorium caespitum: Forel, 1913a: 117; Santschi, 1930b: 56.
• Subspecies of Tetramorium pusillum: Arnold, 1917: 324; Santschi, 1917b: 285; Santschi, 1917c: 285; Wheeler, 1922: 899; Emery, 1924f: 282; Arnold, 1926: 272.
• Status as species: Bolton, 1980: 314 (redescription); Bolton, 1995b: 411.
• Senior synonym of Tetramorium caespitum schultzei: Bolton, 1980: 314; Bolton, 1995b: 411.
• Senior synonym of Tetramorium pusillum mossamedense tristis: Bolton, 1980: 314; Bolton, 1995b: 411.

Junior synonyms

• Tetramorium caespitum schultzei Forel, 1910

Obsolete combinations

• Tetramorium pusillum mossamedense

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
• Forel, A. 1901g. Einige neue Ameisen aus Südbrasilien, Java, Natal und Mossamedes. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 10:297-311. PDF
• Forel, A. 1903h. Einige neue Ameisen aus Süd-Angola. Pp. 559-564 in: Baum, H. 1903. Kunene-Sambesi-Expedition, 1903. Berlin: Verlag des Kolonial-Wirtschaftlichen Komitees, 593 pp.
• Forel, A. 1913a. Fourmis de Rhodesia, etc. récoltées par M. G. Arnold, le Dr. H. Brauns et K. Fikendey. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 57:108-147. PDF
• 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
• Santschi, F. 1917c. Note sur Dorylus affinis Shuckard mâle et ses variétés. Bulletin de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de l'Afrique du Nord 8:18-21. PDF
• Santschi, F. 1930b. Résultats de la Mission scientifique suisse en Angola, 1928-1929. Formicides de l'Angola. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 37:53-81. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.