Taylor, R. W. 1971. The ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of the Kermadec Islands. New Zealand Entomologist 5:81-82.

Taylor, R. W.; Lowery, B. B. 1972. The New Guinean species of the ant genus Orectognathus Fr. Smith (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 11:306-310.

Taylor, R. W. 1972a. Studies on the Australian ponerine army ant, Onychomyrmex. P. 372 in: Rafes, P. M. (ed.) 1972. XIII International Congress of Entomology, Moscow, 2-9 August, 1968. Proceedings, Volume III. Leningrad: Nauka, 494 pp.

Notes: Date signed for printing ("podpisano k pechati").

Taylor, R. W. 1972b. Biogeography of insects of New Guinea and Cape York Peninsula. Pp. 213-230 in: Walker, D. (ed.) 1972. Bridge and barrier: the natural and cultural history of Torres Strait. Research School of Pacific Studies, Publication BG/3. Canberra: Australian National University, xxii + 437 pp.

Ride, W. D. L.; Taylor, R. W. 1973. Formica maxima Moore, 1842 (Insecta, Hymenoptera): proposed suppression under the plenary powers in accordance with article 23(a-b). Z.N.(S.)2023. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 30:58-60. PDF

Taylor, R. W. 1973. Ants of the Australian genus Mesostruma Brown (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 12:24-38. PDF

Taylor, R. W. 1974. Superfamily Formicoidea. P. 111 in: CSIRO (ed.) 1974. The insects of Australia. Supplement 1974. Carlton, Victoria: Melbourne University Press, viii + 146 pp.

Taylor, R. W. 1976a. The ants of Rennell and Bellona Islands. Natural History of Rennell Island, British Solomon Islands 7:73-90.

Taylor, R. W. 1976b. La faune terrestre de l'Île de Sainte-Hélène. 7. Superfam. Formicoidea. Annales. Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale. Série in Octavo. Sciences Zoologiques 215:192-199.

Imai, H. T.; Crozier, R. H.; Taylor, R. W. 1977. Karyotype evolution in Australian ants. Chromosoma (Berlin) 59:341-393. PDF

Taylor, R. W. 1977. New ants of the Australasian genus Orectognathus, with a key to the known species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 25:581-612. PDF

Taylor, R. W.; Brown, W. L., Jr. 1978. Smithistruma kempfi species nov. Pilot Register of Zoology Card No. 35:1-2. PDF

Taylor, R. W. 1978a. Nothomyrmecia macrops: a living-fossil ant rediscovered. Science (Washington, D. C.) 201:979-985. PDF

Taylor, R. W. 1978b. A taxonomic guide to the ant genus Orectognathus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization) Division of Entomology Report 3:1-11. PDF

Taylor, R. W. 1979 ("1978"). Melanesian ants of the genus Amblyopone (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 26:823-839. PDF

Burgman, M. A.; Crozier, R. H.; Taylor, R. W. 1980. Comparisons of different methods of determining affinities of nine ant species of the genus Camponotus. Australian Journal of Zoology 28:151-160.

Wheeler, G. C.; Wheeler, J.; Taylor, R. W. 1980. The larval and egg stages of the primitive ant Nothomyrmecia macrops Clark (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 19:131-137. PDF

Taylor, R. W. 1980a ("1979"). New Australian ants of the genus Orectognathus, with summary description of the twenty-nine known species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 27:773-788. PDF

Taylor, R. W. 1980b. Australian and Melanesian ants of the genus Eurhopalothrix Brown and Kempf - notes and new species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 19:229-239. PDF

Taylor, R. W. 1980c ("1979"). Notes on the Russian endemic ant genus Aulacopone Arnoldi (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Psyche (Cambridge) 86:353-361. PDF

Taylor, R. W. 1980d. The rare Fijian ant Myrmecina (=Archaeomyrmex) cacabau (Mann) rediscovered (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). New Zealand Entomologist 7:122-123. PDF

Ward, P. S.; Taylor, R. W. 1981. Allozyme variation, colony structure and genetic relatedness in the primitive ant Nothomyrmecia macrops Clark (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 20:177-183. PDF

Hölldobler, B.; Engel, H.; Taylor, R. W. 1982. A new sternal gland in ants and its function in chemical communication. Naturwissenschaften 69:90-91.

Highley, E.; Taylor, R. W. (eds.) 1983. Australian systematic entomology: a bicentenary perspective. Melbourne: CSIRO, vii + 147 pp.

Taylor, R. W. 1983. Descriptive taxonomy: past, present and future. Pp. 93-134 in: Highley, E.; Taylor, R. W. (eds.) 1983. Australian systematic entomology: a bicentenary perspective. Melbourne: CSIRO, vii + 147 pp.

Hölldobler, B.; Taylor, R. W. 1984 ("1983"). A behavioral study of the primitive ant Nothomyrmecia macrops Clark. Insectes Sociaux 30:384-401.

Taylor, R. W. 1985. The ants of the Papuasian genus Dacetinops (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae). Pp. 41-67 in: Ball, G. E. (ed.) 1985. Taxonomy, phylogeny, and zoogeography of beetles and ants: a volume dedicated to the memory of Philip Jackson Darlington, Jr., 1904-1983. Series Entomologica (Dordrecht) 33:1-514. PDF

Taylor, R. W.; Brown, D. R. 1985. Formicoidea. Zoological Catalogue of Australia 2:1-149, 306-348.

Crozier, R. H.; Pamilo, P.; Taylor, R. W.; Crozier, Y. C. 1986. Evolutionary patterns in some putative Australian species in the ant genus Rhytidoponera. Australian Journal of Zoology 34:535-560.

Imai, H. T.; Taylor, R. W. 1986. The exceptionally low chromosome number n=2 in an Australian bulldog ant Myrmecia piliventris Smith. Annual Report. National Institute of Genetics, Japan 36:59-61. PDF