• Lectotype designation: Hita Garcia & Fisher, 2014a: 87.
• [Justified emendation of spelling to Tetramorium uelense by B. Bolton.]
• Combination in Decamorium: Bolton, 1976: 298.
• Combination in Tetramorium: Hita Garcia & Fisher, 2014a: 87.
• Status as species: Bolton, 1976: 298; Longhurst et al., 1979: 83; Bolton, 1995b: 169; Hita Garcia & Fisher, 2014a: 87 (redescription).
• Senior synonym of Tetramorium decem nimba: Bolton, 1976: 298; Bolton, 1995b: 169; Hita Garcia & Fisher, 2014a: 87.

Junior synonyms

• Tetramorium decem nimba (Bernard, 1953)
  Obsolete combination(s): Decamorium decem nimba

Obsolete combinations

• Decamorium uelense
• Tetramorium decem uelense

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1976. The ant tribe Tetramoriini (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Constituent genera, review of smaller genera and revision of Triglyphothrix Forel. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology 34:281-379. PDF
• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Hita Garcia, F.; Fisher, B. L. 2014a. The ant genus Tetramorium Mayr in the Afrotropical region (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Myrmicinae): synonymisation of Decamorium Forel under Tetramorium, and taxonomic revision of the T. decem species group. ZooKeys 411:67-103. PDF
• Longhurst, C.; Johnson, R. A.; Wood, T. G. 1979. Foraging, recruitment and predation by Decamorium uelense (Santschi) (Formicidae: Myrmicinae) on termites in southern Guinea Savannah, Nigeria. Oecologia (Berlin) 38:83-91.
• Santschi, F. 1923e. Descriptions de nouveaux Formicides éthiopiens et notes diverses. I. Revue Zoologique Africaine (Brussels) 11:259-295. PDF