• Lectotype designation: Hita Garcia & Fisher, 2014a: 78.
• Arnold, 1917: 350 (q.m.).
• Combination in Decamorium: Wheeler, 1922: 906.
• Combination in Tetramorium: Hita Garcia & Fisher, 2014c: 78.
• Status as species: Arnold, 1917: 349; Wheeler, 1922: 906; Emery, 1924f: 289; Weber, 1952a: 29; Bolton, 1976: 298; Bolton, 1995b: 168; Hita Garcia et al., 2013: 211; Hita Garcia & Fisher, 2014a: 78 (redescription).

Obsolete combinations

• Decamorium decem

Citations

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