• [First available use of Camponotus marginatus discolor clarithorax Emery, 1893k; unavailable (infrasubspecific) name.]
• Combination in Camponotus (Camponotus): Ward & Boudinot, 2021: 46.
• As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Emery, 1896j: 373 (in list); Wheeler, 1910g: 343; Wheeler, 1910i: 231; Wheeler, 1910a: 572; Wheeler, 1917a: 558; Wheeler, 1917c: 28; Emery, 1925d: 117.
• Subspecies of Camponotus caryae: Smith, 1979: 1431.
• Status as species: Smith, 1951c: 844; Snelling, 1988: 61; Bolton, 1995b: 92; Hansen & Klotz, 2005: 88; Ward, 2005: 62; Ward & Boudinot, 2021: 46.

Obsolete combinations

• Camponotus caryae clarithorax

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Creighton, W. S. 1950a. The ants of North America. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 104:1-585. 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
• Hansen, L. D.; Klotz, J. H. 2005. Carpenter ants of the United States and Canada. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, xiii + 204 pp.
• Smith, D. R. 1979. Superfamily Formicoidea. Pp. 1323-1467 in: Krombein, K. V.; Hurd, P. D.; Smith, D. R.; Burks, B. D. (eds.) 1979. Catalog of Hymenoptera in America north of Mexico. Volume 2. Apocrita (Aculeata). Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. i-xvi, 1199-2209.
• Smith, M. R. 1951c. Family Formicidae. Pp. 778-875 in: Muesebeck, C. F. W.; Krombein, K. V.; Townes, H. K. (eds.) 1951. Hymenoptera of America north of Mexico. Synoptic catalogue. United States Department of Agriculture. Agriculture Monograph 2:1-1420. PDF
• Snelling, R. R. 1988. Taxonomic notes on Nearctic species of Camponotus, subgenus Myrmentoma (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Pp. 55-78 in: Trager, J. C. (ed.) 1988. Advances in myrmecology. Leiden: E. J. Brill, xxvii + 551 pp. PDF
• Ward, P. S. 2005. A synoptic review of the ants of California (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 936:1-68. PDF
• Ward, P. S.; Boudinot, B. E. 2021. Grappling with homoplasy: taxonomic refinements and reassignments in the ant genera Camponotus and Colobopsis (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Arthropod Systematics and Phylogeny 79:37-56. 10.3897/asp.79.e66978 PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1910a. Ants: their structure, development and behavior. New York: Columbia University Press, xxv + 663 pp. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1910g. The North American ants of the genus Camponotus Mayr. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 20:295-354. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1910i. The North American forms of Camponotus fallax Nylander. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 18:216-232. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1917a. The mountain ants of western North America. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 52:457-569. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1917c. The North American ants described by Asa Fitch. Psyche (Cambridge) 24:26-29. PDF