The name we stabilize here for this taxon, Tetramorium forte Forel ^HNS, 1904, has occasionally been applied to other taxonomic species, including eastern European ones (e.g. T. moravicum Kratochvil ^HNS, 1941), while T. forte ^HNS as defined here has often been referred to by its junior synonyms T. ruginode Stitz ^HNS, 1917 or T. hispanicum Bondroit ^HNS, 1918. The prevalent confusion has been at least partly caused by the type material containing several taxonomic species. Thus, to achieve nomenclatural stability for this ant species after 100 years, a lectotype of T. forte ^HNS is designated.