• Wheeler & Wheeler, 1953e: 188 (l.); Mackay & MacKay, 2018: 175 (q.)
• Combination in Colobopsis: Ward et al., 2016: 350.
• Status as species: Dennis, 1938: 303; Creighton, 1950a: 394; Smith, 1951c: 846; Smith, 1958c: 145; Carter, 1962a: 7 (in list); Smith, 1967a: 367; Smith, 1979: 1433; DuBois & LaBerge, 1988: 146; Bolton, 1995b: 111; Coovert, 2005: 174; MacGown & Forster, 2005: 66; MacGown et al., 2007: 13; McArthur, 2012: 154; Deyrup, 2017: 194; Mackay & MacKay, 2018: 169 (redescription).

Obsolete combinations

• Camponotus mississippiensis

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
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• DuBois, M. B.; LaBerge, W. E. 1988. Annotated list of ants in Illinois (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Pp. 133-156 in: Trager, J. C. (ed.) 1988. Advances in myrmecology. Leiden: E. J. Brill, xxvii + 551 pp.
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• 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. 1923a. Two new Mississippi ants of the subgenus Colobopsis. Psyche (Cambridge) 30:82-88. PDF
• 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
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• 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
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