• Wheeler & Wheeler, 1973c: 212 (l.)
• Combination in Epopostruma: Forel, 1910b: 51.
• Status as species: Forel, 1910b: 51; Emery, 1924f: 330; Brown, 1948e: 120; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 64; Taylor, 1987a: 26; Taylor, 1991b: 602; Bolton, 1995b: 188; Shattuck, 2000: 65 (redescription); Heterick, 2009: 150.
• Senior synonym of Epopostruma ferruginea: Taylor, 1991b: 602; Bolton, 1995b: 188; Shattuck, 2000: 65.

Junior synonyms

• Epopostruma ferruginea Forel, 1910
  Obsolete combination(s): Epopostruma quadrispinosa ferruginea

Obsolete combinations

• Strumigenys quadrispinosa

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Brown, W. L., Jr. 1948e. A preliminary generic revision of the higher Dacetini (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 74:101-129. PDF
• Emery, C. 1924f ("1922"). Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [concl.]. Genera Insectorum 174C:207-397. PDF
• Forel, A. 1895g. Nouvelles fourmis d'Australie, récoltées à The Ridge, Mackay, Queensland, par M. Gilbert Turner. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 39:417-428. PDF
• Forel, A. 1910b. Formicides australiens reçus de MM. Froggatt et Rowland Turner. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 18:1-94. PDF
• Heterick, B. E. 2009. A guide to the ants of south-western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement 76:1-206. PDF
• Shattuck, S. O. 2000. Genus Colobostruma. Genus Mesostruma. Genus Epopostruma. Pp. 31-67 in: Bolton, B. 2000. The ant tribe Dacetini. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 65:1-1028.
• Taylor, R. W. 1987a. A checklist of the ants of Australia, New Caledonia and New Zealand (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization) Division of Entomology Report 41:1-92. PDF
• Taylor, R. W. 1991b. Nomenclature and distribution of some Australasian ants of the Myrmicinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 30:599-614. PDF
• Taylor, R. W.; Brown, D. R. 1985. Formicoidea. Zoological Catalogue of Australia 2:1-149, 306-348.
• Wheeler, G. C.; Wheeler, J. 1973c. The ant larvae of the tribes Basicerotini and Dacetini: second supplement (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae). Pan-Pacific Entomologist 49:207-214. PDF