• Neotype designation: Shattuck & McArthur, 1995: 122.
• Combination in Iridomyrmex: Taylor & Brown, 1985: 100.
• Combination in Camponotus: Shattuck & McArthur, 1995: 122.
• Combination in Colobopsis: Ward et al., 2016: 350.
• Status as species: Smith, 1858a: 37; Mayr, 1863a: 417; Dalla Torre, 1893: 201; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 100; Shattuck, 1992a: 16; Shattuck, 1994: 107; Shattuck & McArthur, 1995: 122; McArthur & Shattuck, 2001: 38 (redescription); McArthur, 2007b: 304; McArthur, 2010: 32; McArthur, 2012: 142; McArthur, 2014: 48.
• Senior synonym of Colobopsis fictor augustula: McArthur & Shattuck, 2001: 38; McArthur, 2007b: 294; McArthur, 2010: 32.
• Senior synonym of Colobopsis fictor: Shattuck & McArthur, 1995: 122; Bolton, 1995b: 109; McArthur & Shattuck, 2001: 38; McArthur, 2007b: 294; McArthur, 2010: 32.
• Senior synonym of Colobopsis semicarinata: McArthur & Shattuck, 2001: 38; McArthur, 2007b: 294; McArthur, 2010: 32.

Junior synonyms

• Colobopsis fictor (Forel, 1902)
  Obsolete combination(s): Camponotus fictor
• Colobopsis fictor augustula (Viehmeyer, 1925)
  Obsolete combination(s): Camponotus fictor augustulus
• Colobopsis semicarinata Forel, 1895
  Obsolete combination(s): Camponotus semicarinatus, Colobopsis rufifrons semicarinata

Obsolete combinations

• Formica macrocephala

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
• Erichson, W. F. 1842. Beitrag zur Insecten-Fauna von Vandiemensland, mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der geographischen Verbreitung der Insecten. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 8(1):83-287. PDF
• Mayr, G. 1863a. Formicidarum index synonymicus. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 13:385-460. PDF
• McArthur, A. J. 2007b. A key to Camponotus Mayr of Australia. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 80:290-351. PDF
• McArthur, A. J. 2010. A guide to Camponotus ants of South Australia. Adelaide: South Australian Museum, IV + 121 pp.
• McArthur, A. J. 2012. A guide to Colobopsis ants of the world. Adelaide: South Australian Museum, 234 pp.
• McArthur, A. J. 2014. A guide to Camponotus ants of Australia. Adelaide: South Australian Museum, 185 pp.
• McArthur, A. J.; Shattuck, S. O. 2001. A taxonomic revision of the Camponotus macrocephalus species group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 125:25-43. PDF
• Shattuck, S. O. 1992a. Review of the dolichoderine ant genus Iridomyrmex Mayr with descriptions of three new genera (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 31:13-18. PDF
• Shattuck, S. O. 1994. Taxonomic catalog of the ant subfamilies Aneuretinae and Dolichoderinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). University of California Publications in Entomology 112:i-xix, 1-241. PDF
• Shattuck, S. O.; McArthur, A. J. 1995. Generic placements of Australian ants described by W. F. Erichson (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 34:121-123.
• Smith, F. 1858a. Catalogue of hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part VI. Formicidae. London: British Museum, 216 pp. PDF
• Taylor, R. W.; Brown, D. R. 1985. Formicoidea. Zoological Catalogue of Australia 2:1-149, 306-348.
• Ward, P. S.; Blaimer, B. B.; Fisher, B. L. 2016. A revised phylogenetic classification of the ant subfamily Formicinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with resurrection of the genera Colobopsis and Dinomyrmex. Zootaxa 4072:343-357. PDF