• Forel, 1904c: 380 (m.); Wheeler, 1906h: 324 (s.q.); Imai & Kubota, 1972: 195 (k.); Dhadwal & Bharti, 2021: 75 (s.)
• Combination in Camponotus (Camponotus): Forel, 1914a: 266
• Subspecies of Camponotus pennsylvanicus: Forel, 1879a: 56; Forel, 1904c: 380; Ruzsky, 1905b: 239.
• Subspecies of Camponotus herculeanus: Emery, 1908a: 186; Wheeler, 1909d: 343; Wheeler, 1921c: 544; Ruzsky, 1925b: 42; Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1929a: 17; Yasumatsu & Brown, 1951: 36.
• Status as species: Bingham, 1903: 390; Santschi, 1920h: 255; Emery, 1925d: 73; Santschi, 1925f: 88; Ruzsky, 1926: 108; Wheeler, 1927e: 3; Wheeler, 1928d: 116; Karavaiev, 1929d: 212; Stitz, 1934: 4; Yasumatsu & Brown, 1957: 49; Arnol'di, 1967: 1826; Kupyanskaya, 1990a: 169; Dhadwal & Bharti, 2021: 75 (redescription).
• Senior synonym of Camponotus japonicus miltotus: Yasumatsu & Brown, 1951: 36.
• Senior synonym of Camponotus sanguinea: Yasumatsu & Brown, 1951: 36.
• Senior synonym of Camponotus japonicus wui: Yasumatsu & Brown, 1951: 36.
• Senior synonym of Camponotus aterrimus (and its junior synonym Camponotus japonicus manczshuricus): Radchenko, 1997b: 556.

Junior synonyms

• Camponotus japonicus manczshuricus Emery, 1925
• Camponotus japonicus miltotus Wheeler, 1929
• Camponotus japonicus sanguinea Karavaiev, 1929
• Camponotus japonicus wui Wheeler, 1929

Obsolete combinations

• Camponotus herculeanus japonicus

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