Taxonomic history
Combination in Tetraponera: Wheeler, 1922j PDF: 799.As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Arnold, 1916 PDF: 178; Emery, 1921c PDF: 24.Subspecies of Tetraponera natalensis: Wheeler, 1922: 799; Bolton, 1995b: 417.Status as species: Ward & Downie, 2005 PDF: 314, 316 (in phylogeny).