• Lectotype designation: Taylor, 1965b: 43.
• Taylor, 1965b: 47 (q.); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1973a: 34 (l.); Wang, 2003a: 465 (m.)
• Combination in Pristomyrmex: Forel, 1915b: 53
• Status as species: Emery, 1924f: 234; Taylor, 1965b: 42 (redescription); Taylor, 1968d: 64; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 85; Taylor, 1987a: 64; Bolton, 1995b: 365; Wang, 2003a: 463 (redescription).
• Senior synonym of Pristomyrmex quadridentatus queenslandensis: Taylor, 1965b: 43; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 85; Taylor, 1987a: 64; Bolton, 1995b: 365; Wang, 2003a: 463.

Junior synonyms

• Pristomyrmex quadridentatus queenslandensis Forel, 1915

Obsolete combinations

• Odontomyrmex quadridentatus

Citations

• André, Ern. 1905. Description d'un genre nouveau et de deux espèces nouvelles de fourmis d'Australie. Revue d'Entomologie (Caen) 24:205-208. PDF
• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Emery, C. 1924f ("1922"). Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [concl.]. Genera Insectorum 174C:207-397. PDF
• Forel, A. 1915b. Results of Dr. E. Mjöbergs Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia 1910-13. 2. Ameisen. Arkiv för Zoologi 9(16):1-119. PDF
• Taylor, R. W. 1965b. The Australian ants of the genus Pristomyrmex, with a case of apparent character displacement. Psyche (Cambridge) 72:35-54. PDF
• Taylor, R. W. 1968d. A supplement to the revision of Australian Pristomyrmex species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 7:63-66. PDF
• 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.; Brown, D. R. 1985. Formicoidea. Zoological Catalogue of Australia 2:1-149, 306-348.
• Wang, M. 2003a. A monographic revision of the ant genus Pristomyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 157:383-542. PDF
• Wheeler, G. C.; Wheeler, J. 1973a. The ant larvae of six tribes: second supplement (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae). Journal of the Georgia Entomological Society 8:27-39. PDF