• Combination in Camponotus (Myrmoturba): Forel, 1913h: 181.
• Combination in Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex): Emery, 1925d: 103.
• As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Emery, 1896j: 372 (in list).
• Status as species: Mayr, 1865: 30.
• Junior synonym of Camponotus nigriceps: Mayr, 1876: 63.
• Subspecies of Camponotus nigriceps: Emery, 1887a: 211; Dalla Torre, 1893: 244; Forel, 1907j: 301; Stitz, 1911a: 372; Forel, 1913h: 191; Emery, 1914a: 180; Forel, 1915b: 97; Crawley, 1922e: 35; Emery, 1925d: 103.
• Junior synonym of Camponotus consobrinus: Wheeler, 1933b: 23; Clark, 1934c: 70; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 112; Bolton, 1995b: 96; Shattuck & McArthur, 1995: 122; McArthur & Adams, 1996: 22; McArthur, 2007b: 294; McArthur, 2010: 36.

Obsolete combinations

• Camponotus dimidiatus

Citations

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