• Combination in Camponotus: Roger, 1863b: 43.
• Status as species: Mayr, 1863a: 401.
• As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Forel, 1879a: 56; Emery, 1896j: 372 (in list); Wheeler, 1910a: 571.
• Subspecies of Camponotus pennsylvanicus: Dalla Torre, 1893: 247.
• Junior synonym of Camponotus pennsylvanicus: Mayr, 1886d: 420; Emery, 1925d: 73; Bolton, 1995b: 117 (error).
• Junior synonym of Camponotus herculeanus: Cresson, 1887: 257; Creighton, 1950a: 367.
• Senior synonym of Camponotus whymperi: Wheeler, 1910g: 330.
• [Note 1: Wheeler, 1910g: 330, gives Camponotus whymperi as senior synonym, but Camponotus semipunctatus has priority.]
• [Note 2: Mackay, 2019: 213, gives Camponotus semipunctatus as a possible junior synonym of Camponotus herculeanus (following Creighton, 1950a: 367), but Mackay, 2019: 293, also includes Camponotus semipunctatus as a junior synonym of Camponotus pennsylvanicus.]
• Unidentifiable taxon; incertae sedis in Formicinae: Smith, 1958c: 162; Smith, 1979: 1467.
• Unidentifiable taxon; incertae sedis in Camponotus: Bolton, 1995b: 123.

Obsolete combinations

• Formica semipunctata

Citations

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