• Combination in Camponotus (Colobopsis): Forel, 1914a: 272.
• Combination in Colobopsis: Ward et al., 2016: 350.
• Status as species: Emery, 1925d: 147; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 227; Bolton, 1995b: 127.
• [Note: McArthur, 2012: 128, confused the name Colobopsis tricolor Stitz, 1912 (type locality Papua New Guinea) with Camponotus tricolor Weber, 1943d (type locality South Sudan), and consequently incorrectly used the redundant replacement name Camponotus tameri Bolton, 1995b for Colobopsis tricolor Stitz, 1912.]

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Chapman, J. W.; Capco, S. R. 1951. Check list of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Asia. Monographs of the Institute of Science and Technology. Manila 1:1-327. PDF
• Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183:1-302. PDF
• Forel, A. 1914a. Le genre Camponotus Mayr et les genres voisins. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 22:257-276. PDF
• McArthur, A. J. 2012. A guide to Colobopsis ants of the world. Adelaide: South Australian Museum, 234 pp.
• Stitz, H. 1912. Ameisen aus Ceram und Neu-Guinea. Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin 1912:498-514. PDF
• 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