• [Misspelled as 4spinosus by Forel, 1912a: 55.]
• [Note: Wheeler, 1929h: 61, ascribes Lophomyrmex taivanae to Leptomyrmex (error).]
• Subspecies of Lophomyrmex quadrispinosus: Emery, 1924f: 209; Wheeler, 1929h: 61; Wheeler, 1930b: 100; Teranishi, 1940: 57; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 156.
• Status as species: Ettershank, 1966: 134; Rigato, 1994b: 60 (redescription); Bolton, 1995b: 248; Lin & Wu, 2003: 65; Terayama, 2009: 169; Vonshak & Ionescu-Hirsch, 2010: 42; Yamane & Hosoishi, 2015: 67 (in key).

Obsolete combinations

• Lophomyrmex quadrispinosus taivanae

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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• Teranishi, C. 1940. Works of Cho Teranishi. Memorial Volume. [In Japanese, English and German, in part.]. Osaka: Kansai Entomological Society, 312 + (posthumous section) 95 pp.
• Terayama, M. 2009. A synopsis of the family Formicidae of Taiwan (Insecta: Hymenoptera). Research Bulletin of Kanto Gakuen University. Liberal Arts 17:81-266. PDF
• Vonshak, M.; Ionescu-Hirsch, A. 2010 ("2009"). A checklist of the ants of Israel (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Israel Journal of Entomology 39:33-55. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1929h. Ants collected by Professor F. Silvestri in Formosa, the Malay Peninsula and the Philippines. Bollettino del Laboratorio di Zoologia Generale e Agraria della Reale Scuola Superiore d'Agricoltura. Portici 24:27-64. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1930b. Formosan ants collected by Dr. R. Takahashi. Proceedings of the New England Zoological Club 11:93-106. PDF
• Yamane, S.; Hosoishi, S. 2015. Second Vietnamese species of the myrmicine genus Lophomyrmex (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Halteres 5:64-68. PDF