• Status as species: Mayr, 1862: 711; Roger, 1863b: 22; Mayr, 1863a: 437; Mayr, 1872: 149.
• Subspecies of Odontomachus malignus: Mann, 1919: 305; Wheeler, 1935g: 16.
• Junior synonym of Odontomachus malignus: Emery, 1887f: 429; Emery, 1892f: 560 (in key); Dalla Torre, 1893: 51; Emery, 1911e: 113; Wheeler, 1919f: 61; Wilson, 1959c: 495; Brown, 1976c: 104; Bolton, 1995b: 297; Sorger & Zettel, 2011: 156; Wang et al., 2020: 157.

Obsolete combinations

• Odontomachus tuberculatus

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
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• Dalla Torre, K. W. 1893. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp. PDF
• Emery, C. 1887f. Catalogo delle formiche esistenti nelle collezioni del Museo Civico di Genova. Parte terza. Formiche della regione Indo-Malese e dell'Australia (continuazione e fine). Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale 25[=(2)5]:433-448. PDF
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• Mayr, G. 1862. Myrmecologische Studien. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 12:649-776. PDF
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• Mayr, G. 1872. Formicidae Borneenses collectae a J. Doria et O. Beccari in territorio Sarawak annis 1865-1867. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale 2:133-155. PDF
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• Wang, W. Y.; Yamada, A.; Yamane, S. 2020. Maritime trap-jaw ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Ponerinae) of the Indo-Australian region – redescription of Odontomachus malignus Smith and description of a related new species from Singapore, including first descriptions of males. ZooKeys 915:137-174. 10.3897/zookeys.915.38968 PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1919f. The ants of Borneo. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 63:43-147. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1935g. Check list of the ants of Oceania. Occasional Papers of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum 11(11):1-56.
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