• Mayr, 1886d: 423 (s.q.); Emery, 1893k: 681 (m.)
• Combination in Camponotus (Colobopsis): Emery, 1889: 517.
• Combination in Colobopsis: Ward et al., 2016: 350.
• Status as species: Roger, 1863b: 10; Mayr, 1863a: 459; Mayr, 1886d: 423; Cresson, 1887: 255; Dalla Torre, 1893: 235; Emery, 1893k: 681; Emery, 1896j: 376 (in list); Wheeler, 1904c: 144 (redescription); Wheeler, 1910g: 353; Wheeler, 1910a: 572; Wheeler, 1913d: 117; Emery, 1925d: 147; Smith, 1930a: 6; Wheeler, 1932a: 16; Creighton, 1950a: 394; Smith, 1951c: 846; Smith, 1955c: 1; Smith, 1958c: 145; Smith, 1979: 1433; DuBois & LaBerge, 1988: 146; Deyrup et al., 1989: 100; Bolton, 1995b: 104; Deyrup, 2003: 44; Coovert, 2005: 172; MacGown & Forster, 2005: 66; MacGown et al., 2007: 12; McArthur, 2012: 70; Deyrup, 2017: 191; Mackay & MacKay, 2018: 144 (redescription).
• Senior synonym of Colobopsis culmicola: Mackay & MacKay, 2018: 144.
• Senior synonym of Colobopsis pylartes fraxinicola: Deyrup, 2017: 192 (in text); Mackay & MacKay, 2018: 144.
• Senior synonym of Colobopsis hunteri: Mackay & MacKay, 2018: 144.
• Senior synonym of Colobopsis pylartes: Deyrup, 2017: 192 (in text); Mackay & MacKay, 2018: 144.

Junior synonyms

• Colobopsis culmicola (Wheeler, 1905)
  Obsolete combination(s): Camponotus culmicola
• Colobopsis hunteri (Wheeler, 1910)
  Obsolete combination(s): Camponotus hunteri, Camponotus pylartes hunteri
• Colobopsis pylartes (Wheeler, 1904)
  Obsolete combination(s): Camponotus pylartes
• Colobopsis pylartes fraxinicola (Smith, 1923)
  Obsolete combination(s): Camponotus pylartes fraxinicola

Obsolete combinations

• Camponotus impressus

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