• [First available use of Camponotus maculatus thales empedocles Forel, 1913; unavailable (infrasubspecific) name.]
• As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Wheeler, 1922: 959.
• Subspecies of Camponotus maculatus: Arnold, 1922: 645
• Subspecies of Camponotus thales: Emery, 1925d: 92.
• Status as species: Collingwood, 1985: 279; Bolton, 1995b: 97; Collingwood & Agosti, 1996: 372; Collingwood et al., 2011: 448; Borowiec, 2014: 30.

Obsolete combinations

• Camponotus thales empedocles

Citations

• Arnold, G. 1922. A monograph of the Formicidae of South Africa. Part V. Myrmicinae. Annals of the South African Museum 14:579-674. PDF
• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Borowiec, L. 2014. Catalogue of ants of Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and adjacent regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 25 (1-2):1-340. PDF
• Collingwood, C. A. 1985. Hymenoptera: Fam. Formicidae of Saudi Arabia. Fauna of Saudi Arabia 7:230-302. PDF
• Collingwood, C. A.; Agosti, D. 1996. Formicidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera) of Saudi Arabia (part 2). Fauna of Saudi Arabia 15:300-385. PDF
• Collingwood, C. A.; Agosti, D.; Sharaf, M. R.; van Harten, A. 2011. Order Hymenoptera, family Formicidae. Arthropod Fauna of the UAE 4:405-474. PDF
• Emery, C. 1920d. Studi sui Camponotus. Bullettino della Società Entomologica Italiana 52:3-48. 10.5281/zenodo.25547 PDF
• Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183:1-302. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.