• Lectotype designation: Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2022: 99.
• [First available use of Camponotus rubripes maculatus hova Forel, 1886h; unavailable (infrasubspecific) name.]
• Combination in Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex): Emery, 1925d: 85.
• Combination in Camponotus (Myrmosaga): Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2022: 99.
• As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Forel, 1907i: 89.
• Subspecies of Camponotus maculatus: Emery, 1893m: 241 (footnote); Emery, 1895g: 337; Emery, 1896j: 370 (in list); Forel, 1897d: 200; Emery, 1898a: 225; Forel, 1907h: 14; Wheeler, 1922: 1040.
• Status as species: Dalla Torre, 1893: 235; Emery, 1920d: 5, 9 (in key); Emery, 1925d: 85; Collingwood, 1985: 280; Bolton, 1995b: 104; Dorow, 1996a: 86; Collingwood & Agosti, 1996: 373; Collingwood et al., 2004: 489; Borowiec, 2014: 33 (see note in bibliography); Sharaf et al., 2017: 9; Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2022: 99 (redescription).
• Senior synonym of Camponotus hova obscuratus: Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2022: 99.

Junior synonyms

• Camponotus hova obscuratus Emery, 1925

Obsolete combinations

• Camponotus maculatus hova

Citations

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