• Wheeler, 1910g: 312 (s.m.); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1970b: 651 (l.)
• Combination in Camponotus: Dalla Torre, 1893: 231.
• Combination in Camponotus (Myrmoturba): Wheeler, 1917a: 561.
• Combination in Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex): Emery, 1925d: 80.
• Subspecies of Camponotus fumidus: Wheeler, 1902g: 22; Creighton, 1950a: 376
• Status as species: Cresson, 1887: 256; Dalla Torre, 1893: 231; Emery, 1896j: 378 (in list); Snelling, 1968b: 350; Hunt & Snelling, 1975: 22; Smith, 1979: 1428; Snelling & George, 1979: 183; Wheeler & Wheeler, 1986g: 62 (in key); Brandão, 1991: 335; Bolton, 1995b: 99; Mackay & Mackay, 2002: 288; Ward, 2005: 63; Snelling, 2006: 85 (redescription).
• Senior synonym of Camponotus fumidus pubicornis: Wheeler, 1910g: 312
• Senior synonym of Camponotus fumidus spurcus: Creighton, 1950a: 376
• [Note: senior synonym of †Paleosminthurus juliae Camponotus juliae Pierce & Gibron, 1962: Snelling, R.R. (pers. comm. to B. Bolton, 2004, unpublished, unconfirmed).]

Junior synonyms

• Camponotus fumidus pubicornis Emery, 1893
• Camponotus fumidus spurcus Wheeler, 1910

Obsolete combinations

• Formica festinata

Citations

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