• Lectotype designation: Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2022: 140 (redundant).
• [Camponotus quadrimaculatus Forel, 1879a: 115. Nomen nudum.]
• [Misspelled as 4 maculatus by Forel, 1907i: 91.]
• Forel, 1891c: 59 (q.m.)
• Combination in Camponotus (Mayria): Emery, 1925d: 123.
• Combination in Camponotus (Myrmosaga): Forel, 1912j: 92; Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2022: 140.
• Status as species: Forel, 1891c: 58 (redescription); Dalla Torre, 1893: 249; Emery, 1896j: 374 (in list); Forel, 1907i: 91; Wheeler, 1922: 1046; Emery, 1925d: 123; Bolton, 1995b: 119; Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2022: 140 (redescription).
• Senior synonym of Camponotus invalidus: Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2022: 141.
• Senior synonym of Camponotus kelleri: Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2022: 141.
• Senior synonym of Camponotus quadrimaculatus sellaris: Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2022: 140.

Junior synonyms

• Camponotus invalidus Forel, 1897
  Obsolete combination(s): Camponotus kelleri invalidus
• Camponotus kelleri Forel, 1886
• Camponotus quadrimaculatus sellaris Emery, 1895

Obsolete combinations

• Mayria quadrimaculatus

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Dalla Torre, K. W. 1893. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp. PDF
• Emery, C. 1896j. Saggio di un catalogo sistematico dei generi Camponotus, Polyrhachis e affini. Memorie della Reale Accademia delle Scienze dell'Istituto di Bologna (5)5:363-382 [pagination of separate: 761-780]. PDF
• Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183:1-302. PDF
• Forel, A. 1879a. Études myrmécologiques en 1879 (deuxième partie [1re partie en 1878]). Bulletin de la Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles 16:53-128. PDF
• Forel, A. 1886c. Diagnoses provisoires de quelques espèces nouvelles de fourmis de Madagascar, récoltées par M. Grandidier. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 30:ci-cvii. PDF
• Forel, A. 1891c. Les Formicides. [part]. In: Grandidier, A. 1891. Histoire physique, naturelle, et politique de Madagascar. Volume XX. Histoire naturelle des Hyménoptères. Deuxième partie (28e fascicule). Paris: Hachette et Cie, v + 237 pp. PDF
• Forel, A. 1907i. Ameisen von Madagaskar, den Comoren und Ostafrika. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse. Reise in Ostafrika 2:75-92. PDF
• Forel, A. 1912j. Formicides néotropiques. Part VI. 5me sous-famille Camponotinae Forel. Mémoires de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 20:59-92. PDF
• Rakotonirina, J. C.; Fisher, B. L. 2022. Revision of the Malagasy Camponotus subgenus Myrmosaga (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) using qualitative and quantitative morphology. ZooKeys 1098:1-180. 10.3897/zookeys.1098.73223 PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.